Bulgaria Culture and Sights

The cathedral is the grand landmark of Sofia . Many non-Bulgarians who have traveled the Balkans regard the cathedral as the most splendid 20th-century edifice in the Balkan region. It was built in hono...

price level:high-end , address:Vitosha Boulevard, Sofia, Bulgaria

Bulgaria's largest mosque . The largest mosque from Ottoman times was built in 1744 by Sherif Halil Pasha. The mosque, which was a museum during the socialist area, today is used as a beadhouse by Musle...

Carved in stone, written documents with the name "Bulgaria". This famous relief dating from the 8th century is one of the most important documents of Bulgarian cultural history. Carved in a rock face be...

A true treasury of art . The rocks above the Rusenski Lom river contain some of a few preserved monuments of medieval Bulgarian art: Wall paintings from the Tarnovo School in the cave abbey are under UN...

Marvelous abbey with unique wall paintings . The complex near Asenovgrad is the second-largest abbey after the one in Rila and also is in very important for its impact on the architecture, art, and inte...

The open-air museum is a treasury of old craftsmanship. South of Veliko Târnovo, in a section of woodland where the river Sivak runs, lies the most original and picturesque open-air museum of Bulgaria....

Relics of Roman baths from the second and third centuries on a 75,000-square-foot plot in Varna. About three quarters of the area in the southeast section of town, where the Roman hot springs from the ...

Findings from a necropolis dating as far back as 5000 B.C. are the showpiece of the museum in Varna. Findings from a gravesite from the Copper Age (5000-4000 B.C.) are the showpieces of this great coll...