Sights in District Sliven

Georgi Janakiev Stoyanov is a Bulgarian artist, one of the main representatives of the Bulgarian graphics, illustration and painting. Born on May 6, 1941 in village of Veselie, Bourgas. His childhood and youth were bygoned in the Burgas region. In 1964 He was admitted to the National Academy of...

Sliven Regional Historical Museum traces history of the Sliven region from the antique to nowadays. The main museum sections are: - Archaeology - keeps objects from the period of the VI millennium BC till the end of the Second Bulgarian kingdom- History from XV - XIX centuries - historical...

Hadji Dimitar is legendary Bulgarian voivoda (leader) - fighter for the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottomans. It was born May 1840 in the Sliven neighborhood "Kloutsohor". In 1935 his native-home was turned into museum. The house is a small, one-storeyed , unsymmetrical building with a...

The Natural history museum in town of Kotel has strong positions and is included in the national network of significant museums. The main purpose of the museum is to show the biodiversity of the eastern part of Stara Planina mountain.The founder of the Museum is Vasil Georgiev /1875-1963/, who was a...

Art gallery "Dimitar Dobrovich" in town of Sliven is inheritor of an Art exhibition from 1905, open in the library of the community center Zora. This first exhibition was made by the artist Jordan Kyuvliev and contains 14 works of the painter from Sliven - Dimitar Dobrovich. Later in the e...

The National Museum of the Textile Industry in town of Sliven is a subsidiary of the National Polytechnic Museum - Sofia. It was created in 1984 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of industrial development in Bulgaria. The museum is housed in its own building (the first textile...