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Bulgaria has nine UNESCO-listed World Heritage Sites.
The Thracian Kazanluk Tomb, located in the Valley of Roses near the town of Kazanluk, has perfectly preserved murals dating from the fourth century BC.
The Sveshtari Tomb is situated in an archaeological reserve near the town of Razgrad; it was built 2300 years ago for a Thracian king.
The Madara Horseman, an image carved into a rock of a horseman piercing a lion with his spear, dates from the early Middle Ages (eighth century); it is located on the Madara Plateau in the Danube plain.
The 13th-century Boyana Church is located at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the Sofia suburb of Boyana and is famous for its murals, which include replicas of icons from Constantinople.
The Ivanovo Rock Monasteries near the city of Ruse stretch for more than 5km (3.1 miles) and consist of cells, churches and chapels dug into the rocks by hermit monks who settled there between the 11th and 14th centuries.
Old Nessebur is one of Europe’s oldest towns (for details, see The Black Sea Coast section).
The 11th-century Rila Monastery is set on Rila Mountain, 121km (75 miles) from Sofia (for details, see section on Monasteries).
The Sreburna Lake nature reserve is located near the Danube river, 16km (10 miles) west of the town of Silistra. It stretches over an area of 600 hectares (1482 acres) and is listed for its unique fauna and wildlife, including the rare Dalmatian pelican, the cormorant and the ibis. Thanks to swift preventative measures, the park seems to have escaped unscathed from the recent Danube cyanide spill.
The Pirin National Park (for details, see section on Mountains&Lakes ) is a protected area of 27,400 hectares (67,678 acres). |
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Rila Monastery
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The monastery is situated at 1147 m above sea level amidst beautiful scenery in a hard-to-reach part of Rila Mountain, 117 km south-west of Sofia. Two swift- antechamber flowing rivers- Drushliavitsa and Rilska, flow on either side.
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It was founde ... |
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Boyana Church
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The church of Boyana is situated in Boyana – a suburb of Sofia.
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It consists of three parts built in three stages. The first stage was in the end of the 10th century and in the beginning of the 11th century. The second one was in the middle of th ... |
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Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
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It is situated 2.5 km south-west of the village of Sveshtari, 42 km north-east of Razgrad, in the north-east of Bulgaria.
History & Things to see:
It was discovered in 1982 during the excavation of the high Glinina mound near the village. It is a Thracian-Hellenistic ... |
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Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
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Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo are situated 20 km south of Rousse, on the high rocky banks of the Russesnski Lom, near the village of Ivanovo. Some of them are up to 36 m above the river.
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They form a monastery complex comprising about 20 m ... |
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Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
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The tomb, situated in a mound near the town of Kazanluk, was discovered by accident in 1944. Up to then, the burial mound had been considered a natural elevation of the ground.
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The tomb, dated late 4th century B.C., is believed to have be ... |
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Madara Rider
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It is in the north-east of Bulgaria, 20 km from the town of Shumen, near the village of Madara.
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The relief was cut in a vertical rock at 23 m height during the 8th century. It measures 2.6 m in height and is 3.1 wide at the base. The relief comp ... |
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Pirin National Park
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The natural reserve encompasses the larger part of the Pirin mountain in the south-west of Bulgaria. The protected territory covers about 26, 000 ha.
History & Things to see:
The Thracians called the mountain Orbellus (“Snow Mountain”), and the Slavs associated it with t ... |
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Ancient City of Nessebar
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The old town of Nessebur is situated on a small Black Sea peninsula, and is connected to the land via a narrow isthmus.
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It was first inhabited in the Bronze Age, when the neck of land was barricaded in the event of danger. The first Thracian sett ... |
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Srebarna Nature Reserve
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The biosphere reserve is situated near the village of Sreburna, 18 km west of Silistra and 2 km south of the Danube.It includes Lake Sreburna and the surrounding territory, covering an area of 600 ha.
History & Things to see:
The depth of the lake varies between 1 ... |
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