Sights in Region South-Eastern

The St. Dimitar Church in village of Brashlyan was built in XVII century at place where in the ancient a Thracian sanctuary existed. The Church has the typical Predvazrojdenski style of the local religious architecture and was digged into the ground to comply the orders of the Turkish government abo...

This memorial in town of Malko Tarnovo is dedicated to the Bulgarian volunteers from the Russo-Turkish War 1877 - 1878....

The house of Kosevi family (Kosio Ivanov and his sons Krastyu Kossev and Kosyo Kossev) in the village of Golyamo Dryanovo was built in 1895 and was the largest and most spacious house in the village. It was constructed in the typical Trevnenski style and after 1944 was operating a shop for...

Sveta Petka is venerated saint in the region of Strandja. This temple was built in her honor. It is located a few kilometers northeast of the village of Brashlyan. The chapel has a holy spring whose waters and mud (yellow in color) are considered to be healing and treating eczemas. There is a ...

Chapel of "Holly Virgin" ("Sveta Bogoroditsa") in the area Chernogorovo (aka Tsarnogorovo) is located in Strandja Mountain, about 4 km southeast of Malko Tarnovo. Every year since 1914, on the day of the Virgin Mary (August 28), there is held a traditional Chernogorovski Fair. ...

The Big and Small Vris (Golemiat i Malkiat Vrisove) are captured springs (fountains) located in the town of Malko Turnovo. They are 2 of the town symbols. There is a belief that if a guest of the town drinks water from the Big Vris fountain he will married for a local boy/girl and will stayed in the...

The Chapel of the Holy Virgin ("Sveta Bogoroditsa") in the area of Peikovo is located 8 km northwest of the town of Malko Turnovo, near the road Malko Turnovo - Burgas. It is surrounded by old trees and a spring which is believed to be curative (ayazmo). There is a legend about the origin of the ...

Bratanova cave is located in the area named "Trite dereta" ("The three gullies") within the borders of nature reserve Vitanovo in Strandzha mountain. It issituated about 9 km northwest of town of Malko Turnovo and is the largest in the region of Strandja mountain. The name of t...

The Stone Mushroom (Kamenna gaba) is a rock phenomenon located near town of Malko Tarnovo (some 10km in north-east direction). It is shaped like a mushroom from where its name originated. In its bottom, there is a narrow cleft, called "provivalo". People believe that those who manage to go...

This Monument of the fallen in the IIlinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising from 1903 is located in town of Malko Turnovo. The monument was built in 1934 in honor of the fallen in the uprising for liberation of the Macedonian and Thracian Bulgarians....