Sights in Region South-Western

The park Hisarlaka is situated near town of Kyustendil, on the hill with the same name - Hisarlaka. It extends to 1300 m2. After some forestation activities nowadays there predominate the pine, white pine, spruce, fir, linden, maple and others.Between the city and the park there are many paths...

The University Botanical Garden in Sofia was founded in the XIX-th century (1892) by the Professor of Botany, Stefan Georgiev. It is located in the central part of the city, not far away of the Sofia University, in close proximity to the Vasil Levski Memorial, the National Gallery of foreign Art and...

One of the attractions that can be visited in the village of Mursalevo is the ostrich farm Gerena. It is located on Highway E-79 in the village, 80 km south of Sofia and 15 km north of Blagoevgrad. The location is very convenient for travelers to or from Greece, as well as tourists visiting the R...

Church "Saint Dimitar Thessalinian Wonder Worker" in town of Godech is dated to XVII century. During the Ottoman domination it was destroyed by kardjalii and was restored again in 1836 with a donation of local donors. Right at the entrance, high in the construction, there is a stone with...

Podgumer Monastery St.Dimitar is located in a small valley in the south foot of the Sofia Mountain of West Balkan Mountain, around 5km north-east of village of Podgumer and 7km east of town of Novi Iskar. It was built probably in XIII-th century and till nowadays was destroyed and restored many...

The Regional Historical Museum of Kyustendil is an inheritor of opened in 1897 school-museum to the town`s Pedagogical school which in 1908 became a part of the local community center "Bratstvo". Since 1992 it is called "Academician Jordan Ivanov", after the name of the great Bulgarian scholar....

Krakra fortress is situated in the southwestern outskirts of the town of Pernik. It has strategic position and its key role was to keep the western border of the Bulgarian kingdom. During the X-th and XI-th centuries, the fortress became the main fortification of the local ruler, Krakra of Pernik....

The National Historical museum in Sofia was founded in 1973. Since 1979 the Museum was hosted  in the building of the Courts of Justice but in 2000 it was moved into the bilding of Residence "Boyana" (quarter of Boyna, Sofia).The museum has 32 halls and is one of the largest history mu...

In the mountains above the village of Kalotintsi (municipality Zemen) are found remains of walls and reservoirs of a medieval fortress, known by the locals as "Gradiste".It is assumed the fortress was established during the II-nd Bulgarian Kingdom, to guard the trade roads. Probably it was a part of...

The monastery "St.Spas" and its church of "Ascension" are among the main attractions of the village of Gorna Vrabcha. The cloister was founded in XIV-XVI centuries and consists of church and residential buildings. ...