Sights in District Kyustendil

Near the church "Assumption" in Kyustendil, in 1820, was built the first Bulgarian school in this town. This was a small, so called "Cell" school (so are called all of the primary schools during the Ottoman rule). The school has had one room and it was under managaments of the church. There were ...

Sv. Ivan Rislki Chudotvorets (St. John of Rila the Miracle Worker) is a Bulgarian cleric - the most famous Bulgarian hermit saint, heavenly protector and patron of Bulgarian people. The saint was born 876 years in the village of Skrino and died in 946. Southwest of the village, about half a...

The remains of the medieval fortress Dragoychintsi are situated in the "Kulata" locality, 650 meters northwest of the village of Dragoychintsi (10 km from Kyustendil). The castle was in the shape of a triangle, with tip directed to the west, where the entrance was. The Eastern wall was...