Sights in Region South-Western

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 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...

Ski resort Borovets (known in the past as Chamkoriya) is located 10km away of town of Samokov, in the foot of peak Musala (2952m, Rila Mountain) at 1350m above sea level. This is Bulgaria oldest mountain resort.The resort is situated on the northern slopes of Rila Mountain among age old pine woods...

The fortress Momina kula is a late Antiquity and Medieval fortress. It is located in valley of Mesta river near village of Kremen (municipality of Bansko), in one of the most narrow and picturesque sections of Momina kula gorge.The fortress takes up an area of 500 m2. There are preserved remains fr...

The Dancing Bears Park is located in South Rila mountain in area of Andrianov Chark, 12km north of town of Belitsa. It was officially opened on 17 November 2000 with the help of foundations "Four Paws", foundation of the actress Brigitte Bardot and municipality of Belitsa. The park size is...

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...

Alexander Nevski Cathedral in city of Sofia was built in 1912 in honour of the Russian and Ukrainian casualties of the 1877-78 War of Liberation from Ottoman Rule. It is one of the finest pieces of architecture in the Balkans. The cathedral has a gold-dome and icons, frescoes, murals and huge ...

Church "St. Joachim and Anna" in village of Smolichano is located at the end of the village, near the road coming from the village of Vaksevo. It was built on the foundations of a medieval church in 1888The frescoes in the church "St. Joachim and Anna" are the work of painter ...

The Kayaliyski rocks are located in the village of Kovachevitsa (Garmen Municipality), at an altitude of 1500-1600 meters.The rocks have shape of massive stone pyramids. They are formed in the times by erosion of granites of the Rila-West Rhodopes Batholith formed about 250-300 mln. ago....