Category: Historical Tourism

The city of Varna is situated in the North-Eastern part of Bulgaria, on the Black Sea shore. Varna is the third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest one on the Black Sea shore with a population of about 330 000 people. Because of its history and its economic and cultural significance, it is often called the Sea Capital of Bulgaria. The average January temperature in Varna is +1.7 °С, the average July temperature is +22.8 °С, and the average annual temperature is +12.2 ° С, which makes it very appropriate…

An original Thracian tomb from the 4th – 3rd century BC is situated in the Tyulbeto park. It is known as the Kazanlak Tomb. It is under a special storage regime. Its duplicate, constructed in scale 1:1, which presents the architecture, the archaeological materials and the wall-paintings of the Kazanlak Tomb, is situated next to it. This Tomb is one of the most significant monuments of the Thracian culture in the Bulgarian lands, included in the list of the global cultural inheritance of UNESCO in 1979. The tomb was accidentally…

Ethnographic Areal Complex – Zlatograd Zlatograd is a small town in the Rhodope Mountains located just 2 km away from the Greek border and 60 km southeast of Smolyan. Zlatograd Ethnographic Areal Complex lies in the heart of the town. It is an open-air museum which is also part of the everyday life of local people. The complex comprises an ethnographic museum, workshops and an exhibition of water equipment. The tour around the complex starts from the museum in order for visitors to become acquainted with the history of the…

The National Museum of History is one of the largest and richest historical museums on the Balkan Peninsula. It houses over 700 000 cultural monuments representing the history of the present-day Bulgarian lands from 8000 years ago to the present day. Only 10% of all these treasures and monuments are exhibited in the halls of the museum. The National History Museum was established in 1973 and its first exhibition was opened in the building of the Court Palace in Sofia in 1984 to commemorate the 1300th anniversary of the establishment…

Veliko Tarnovo is a city of past and present, of legends and reality, of rich cultural heritage and vibrant public life. It is the crossroads of generations of Bulgarians and preserves the spirit of bygone eras sealed in every stone. The emblem of medieval Tarnovo from its time as the capital of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom still rises in the eastern part of the city. The hill-fortress “Tsarevets” is surrounded on all sides by the waters of the Yantra River and still captivates with its grandeur and invincibility. Its spirit…

Plovdiv is one of the oldest centers of European civilization – older than Rome and Athens and a contemporary of Troy and Mycenae. “…This is the biggest and loveliest of all towns. Its beauty shines from faraway…” – Lucian /2nd century/ The first settlement appeared in the sixth millennium BC on the northern hilltop /known as Nebet Tepe / of the Three hills. Plovdiv emerged as a real town in the 12th c. BC. The ancient Greek writers ascribe the fame of being its first founder to the mythical Thracian…