Sightseeing in Bulgaria

Sreburna Biosphere Reserve
The reserve is one of the stops on the international bird migration route, Via Pontica, which explains the large bird population there.


Ivanovo Monastery
The Ivanovo Rock Monastery is situated 21km south of the town of Rousse.


The Boyana church
The Boyana church is one of the few examples of medieval art in Bulgaria that have survived to date.


The waterfall - Raysko Praskalo
Raysko Praskalo is 124,5 m in height, is the highest waterfall in Bulgaria and the Balkans.


The Botanic Garden of Balchik
The Botanic Garden of Balchik lies in the heart of the town, which in turn is situated 31km north of Varna in a beatiful inlet.


Kaliakra Cape
Kaliakra is a beautiful cape close to the Romanian border.


The Devil's Throat cave
The Devil's Throat cave is a 300 000 years old cave.


Plovdiv Museum Town
An ancient crossroads between East and West and Bulgaria's second largest city today, Plovdiv has preserved unique treasures from its 24 centuries long history.


The Sueva Dupka Cave
The Sueva Dupka Cave is interesting for different cave species. Scientists found, that the primitive man inhabited the cave.


The Seven Lakes of Rila mountain
The cirque of the Seven Rila Lakes is the largest in all of Rila Mountain. It is centered East of Haidyta Peak (also known as Hermit Peak) and South of the steap rock slopes of Razdela Ridge and Otovishka Peak, found to the West of the peak directly above Kidney lake.


Melnik - the smallest town in Bulgaria
Time has not consigned to oblivion the legends and facts about old Melnik.


Ledenika cave
Ledenika cave is in the north-west of the Vrachanska mountain - in the Stresherski area, 16 kms away from the city of Vratsa.The Ledenika cave was opened for the first time in 1961. In 1962 it was proclaimed for a natural landmark.


The Monument of Shipka
The Monument of Liberty rises on the Peak Shipka. It has been built with the voluntary donations of the Bulgarian people and according to the project of the architect Atanas Donkov and the sculptor Alexander Andreev. It was officially opened in 1934.


The Madara Rider
The Madara Rider is a large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria.


The Sveshtari royal tomb
The Sveshtari royal tomb ( end of 4th- beginning of the 3rd c. B.C.), unearthed in 1982 is one of the most sensational discoveries in the field of the Thracian archaeology and the Hellenistic architecture.


Arbanassy
Arbanassy is a small picturesque village ? architectural reserve. The village was a flourishing trade and cultural center in the 16c.


Demir Baba Teke
This ancient place is near the town of Isperih in North-East Bulgaria, close to the Danube river. It is part of the Sboryanovo Archaeological Reserve that groups several important sites in the region, one of which is the famous Sveshtari Thracian Tomb -- an UNESCO protected monument (one of the nine in Bulgaria)


Medievel town of Cherven
Cherven was one of the biggest towns of Bulgaria in the period of 12th-14th century.


Pliska - The First Bulgarian capital
The town used to be the main political, military, economic and cultural centre from the foundation of the Bulgarian State in 681 till 893.


Velikli Preslav
An inscription chiseled into an ancient stone column reads that the town was founded by Khan Omourtag. It reached its heyday when Tsar Simeon the Great ruled the country.


The Sytalk temple


The Kazanlak tomb
The tomb was excavated in 1944 and is one of the 9-th cultural and historic places of sightseeing in Bulgaria, included in the UNESCO list of the historic and archaeological monuments with a global importance.


The Cepina fortress
The citadel is an archaeological monument of a national significance. During the Middle Ages the Cepina fortress is one of the most famous strongholds in the Rodopi range


Kabile Archaeology Reserve
Interesting are and the ruins of Kibela's Temple lying north of Varna.


The Ethnographic museum Etar
The Ethnographic museum Etar is the first open air museum of this kind opened in Bulgaria.


The Rozhen monastery
The Rozhen monastery is situated about 5km away from the small town of Melnik up in the lower part of the Pirin mountain. It offers an amazing view to the peaks of the Pirin and Belasitsa mountains, and the famous ?mels? of Melnik ? the latter being pyramid-like hills around the town, formed by the erosion of clay loam.


The place Rupite
Rupite is a small mountainous protected area in the southeastern part Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria, 10-12 kilometres northeast of Petrich, on the right bank of the Struma River.


THE ROCK MASSIF BELENTASH
The great mistery of Belentash rocks.


Krastova Gora
Among the numerous famous Holy places throughout our motherlands there is one, which still strives to find its place in the modern Bulgarian history.


Asen's Fortress
Asen's Fortress is situated 2 km away from Asenovgrad on a steep, rocky hillside, towering above the left bank of the Asenitsa River. In the past the fortress was known as Petrich, Stenimahos and Scribencion.


Troyan Monastery
The stauropegial Troyan monastery, ?Assumption of Virgin Mary?, is situated at about 10 km to the southeast of the old Balkan town of Troyan, in the skirts of the Balkan mountain range. Built at about 400 meters above sea level, the biggest monastery in the Balkan mountains is surrounded by beautiful forests and the Cherni Osam river, which gives a particular charm to the place.


Bachkovo Monastery
The second largest Bulgarian monastery, the Bachkovo cloister, lies in the valley of the Chepelare river (also known by the locals as Chaya), about 10km to the south of the town of Assenovgrad.


Perperikon
Perperikon (or Hyperperakion or Perperakion) is in the Eastern Rhodope range, some 10 miles from the town of Kurdzhali. The roads from Sofia, via Asenovgrad or Haskovo, are fairly good and well maintained.


Rila Monastery
The Rila monastery lies in the very Rila mountain, at 1,147 meters above sea level. It is situated 117km away from Sofia to the south, and is no doubt the most popular tourist site among all monasteries in Bulgaria equally for its size, natural surroundings, architecture, wall paintings and ancient history.


Chiprovtsi
The craftsmen centre of Rennaisance Bulgaria.


The Magurata cave
The Magura cave is in the Northwest of Bulgaria, some 180km from the capital of Sofia. It is 17km away from the town of Belogradchik 1,5km from the village of Rabisha, and 35km southwest of the town of Vidin on the Danube.It is hollowed out in the Rabisha hill limestone, 461m above sea level.


The Belogradchik fortress and the Belogradchik rocks
Belogradchik fortress is one of the most preserved in the country. In I-III century The Romans, using the natural impregnability of the rocks, hold here a fortress to guard the strategic ways that crossed the region


Baba Vida
Baba Vida is the only authentic and fully preserved medieval castle in Bulgaria with a past as both a military fortress and a rulers' residence.