Sights in Region South-Western

The Church "St. Petka Paraskeva" in village Voluyak is declared monument of culture. It is located west of the two Thracian mounds. The village profess mainly Orthodox faith and there was a church from the very old times.The current church was built two years after the liberation of Bulgaria from...

Gotse Delchev monastery "Zhivorpriemnii iztochnik" (aka "Virgin Mary") is located about 2 km southwest of the town of Gotse Delchev. It's constantly-acting, nunnery. The monastery was founded in the XIX century. According marble slab, which is built into the west wall of the monastery church, the ...

Zhabliano Monastery "St. John the Baptist" is located in the Konyavska  Mountain (under Kurilovo peak), two kilometers south of the village of Jablyano, in the "Virova gradina" locality. The date of its creation is unknown. During the times of the Ottoman rule the monastery was destroyed and was r...

The Monastery "St. Petka" is located in the northeastern part of the town of Svoge. It was founded at the end of XII century (1118) during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom.The complex consists of an old church "St. Petka", a new three-nave parish church "St. Peter and Paul" and residential buildings.The...

The church "St. Dimitar" in the town of Belica is situated near the square "Brego", in the western part of the town. The building has an area of about 60 square meters .Its construction began in the XVII century (around year of 1640) and was accompanied by many difficulties. Several times, the...

Chekotinski "Monastery of St. Archangel Michael" is located along the Iskar River near the hamlet Chekotin (hence its name), west of Kalugerovo village (Pravets municipality). It was built during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - in the end of XII or beginning of XIII century. About 4-5 km ...

"St.Teodor Tiron and Teodor Stratilat" church in Dobarsko was built in 1614. Most likely it was built on the foundations of an existing church from XII century (year of 1112) church, which can be deduced by an inscription on the slab dug into the floor before the altar (there are theories...

The Kurilo Monastery St. Ivan Rilski is situated at the beginning of the Iskar Gorge, on the right bank of Iskar River, 1km north-eastern of Kurilo (a quarter of Novi Iskar town) and 15 km away from Sofia.  It was founded in IX-X-th century, near the old Bulgarian fortress Beligrad. The Monastery i...

The Rila monastery (real name is Monastery of Saint Ivan of Rila) is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is located in Rila mountain, several kilomters east of town of Rila and 117km south of Sofia.The monastery was built in X-th century and nowadays the complex...

The Boyana Church (Boyanska tsarkva) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated on the outskirts of Sofia in the quarter of Boyana. It is built in the late X-th or early XI-th century. The church is famous with its frescoes from 1259. They form a second layer over the paintings from earlier...