Sights in District Pernik

The Underground mining museum "Starite Rudnitsi 1891" ("The old  mines 1891") is one of the main attractions of town of Pernik. It is located 50 meters below the ground in one of the old mines - "Temelko Nenkov" (or "Starite Rudnitsi"), where in 1891 has be...

The Museum of the Bulgarian Kiselo Mlyako (yoghurt) in village of Studen Izvor (municipality of Trun) was opened in 2007. It is housed in a building near the birth-house of Dr Stamen Grigorov - the creator of Lactobacillus bulgaricus - the unique bacteria underlying the production of Bulgarian...

The Regional Historical Museum in Pernik was established in 1953. It has a rich collection of historical objects from the Middle Ages and ethnographic materials related to the traditional Bulgarian culture. The Pernik museum has following collections: - prehistoric pottery - urban lifestyle in the ...

Village of Busintsi is well-known for centuries with its ceramics. During the Bulgarian Renaissance, the local Businska school  reached its zenith, and in the village almost every house had rolled pottery wheels (over 300). In Busentsi was located also the first Bulgarian school in ceramics.In the ...