Black Sea Coast
Offering dramatic panoramic views across the Black Sea, these peaceful gardens overlook the northern peninsula's rocky headland at the end of the main…
Must-see attractions in Bulgaria
Black Sea Coast
Inside a typical wooden National Revival building, constructed in 1840 for a wealthy merchant, this museum features exhibitions of folk costumes and…
Varna
The pretty Sveti Nikolai Church, right in the city centre, is worth a visit for its saintly murals. It’s always busy, and is a popular venue for weddings.
Varna
The beautiful Sveti Atanas Church overlooks the Roman Thermae. Dating from 1838, it features numerous icons and an intricately carved bishop’s throne.
Bulgaria
The 3rd-century-AD Forum Augusta Trayana is well preserved and hosts summertime concerts. Just north of the park, it can be freely explored on foot.
Black Sea Coast
The impressive ruins of this 5th-century church today form the centrepiece of a busy plaza surrounded by cafes and artists’ street stalls.
Sofia
Near the entrance to Borisova Gradina, this gigantic monument was built in 1954 and is a prime example of the forceful socialist realism of the period…
Sofia
The Romantic poet and revolutionary Peyo Yavorov (1878–1914) briefly lived in a small apartment here; the three rooms have been restored to their original…
Sofia
This small, central park, bounded on its northern end by ul Tsar Osvoboditel, is favoured by Sofia's chess-playing pensioners. It's home to the National…
Sofia
Completed in 1863, this magnificent domed church is one of the city’s major landmarks, and is noted for its rich, Byzantine-style murals. The church was…
Sofia
The chunky building at the southern end of the City Garden park is an art gallery staging rotating exhibitions of mostly contemporary Bulgarian and…
Bulgaria
Founded in the 14th-century, Cherepish Monastery was torched, toppled and rebuilt repeatedly during the Ottoman period. Like many other monasteries, it…
Sofia
This working monastery is probably the oldest of its kind in Bulgaria. It was built around 1345, but abandoned only 40 years later. The monastery contains…
Bulgaria
This two-room museum displays the remains of an 8000-year-old Stone Age house, once 7m in height, along with interesting details on how Bulgarians from…
Museum of National Revival & Constituent Assembly
Veliko Târnovo
Within a former Turkish town hall built in 1872, this is where Bulgaria’s first National Assembly was held to write the country’s first constitution in…
Veliko Târnovo
Across the river, enclosed by a high wall, is Târnovo’s oldest church, the beautifully proportioned Church of Sveti Dimitâr. Built in the so-called…
Bulgaria
Set around a garden, this house-museum contains manuscripts and paintings by locally born Milev (1895–1925). After suffering injuries in WWI, including…
Veliko Târnovo
Eerily lifelike wax figures of medieval characters are the main attraction of this museum en route to Tsarevets Fortress. Between waxy visages of peasants…
Monastery of Sveti Georgi the Victorious
Black Sea Coast
Sveti Georgi Monastery, built in 1856, is a small complex set in pretty gardens with a quaint, icon-filled church and a bell tower covered in saintly…
Bulgaria
This rounded burial mound was first excavated in 1996. The bare central chamber of the 4th-century-BC tomb has columns with Doric capitals; its 6m-by-4m…
Bulgaria
Todor Kableshkov is revered as having (probably) been the person who fired the first shot in the 1876 uprising against the Turks. After his arrest, he…
Bulgaria
Join the locals filling water bottles at this elegant colonnade. Sipping these lukewarm and mineral-rich waters is reputed to boost everything from liver…
Bulgaria
The museum within Dryanovo Monastery is devoted mostly to the 1876 April uprising and the Russo-Turkish War, and the monastery's role in safeguarding the…
Plovdiv
Get two famous Bulgarians for the price of one at this tasteful National Revival–era mansion. Seventy-two paintings by Plovdiv native Zlatyu Boyadjiev …
Bulgaria
Shop with the locals at this large warren of shops, selling everything from jars of honey (4 lv) to bags of spices (1 lv), alongside fruits and vegetables…
Sofia
This massive visual-arts gallery combines the holdings of the National Gallery and the former Museum of Foreign Art. The result is several hundred…
Sofia
Displays on regional costumes, crafts and folklore are spread over two floors of the former royal palace, and many of the rooms are worth a pause…
Bulgaria
This museum examines the life and trials of one of Bulgaria's best-known revolutionaries, Vasil Levski, through items from his life (including weapons)…
Iskra Historical Museum & Art Gallery
Bulgaria
This museum showcases ancient finds and modern art, split across two floors. The ground floor displays extensive archaeological finds, including pottery,…
Ruse
This huge, gloriously titled neo-baroque building dominates the western end of pl Svoboda. Built between 1898 and 1902 by Viennese architects, it was…
Bulgaria
Also called Topalova House, after the original owner, Lyutova House was built in 1854 in a style that mimicked Plovdiv’s characteristic baroque houses. It…
Plovdiv
Bulgaria's first working mosque, this unmissable Ottoman building in the middle of Plovdiv's pedestrianised shopping zone was originally built in 1364. It…
National Museum of Military History
Sofia
This out-of-the-way museum tells the story of warfare in Bulgaria, with most space given to the period from the 1876 April Uprising through to WWI…
Bulgaria
Inside the former Turkish police station, located in the central part of the city, this museum holds a scrappy collection of neolithic flints, Roman…
Pantheon of the National Revival
Ruse
The gold-domed Pantheon of the National Revival was built in 1978 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the deaths of 453 local heroes who fought the…
Bulgaria
Arrowheads and other finds from Roman times are displayed at this two-floor regional museum, alongside agrarian implements such as tremendous urns used to…
Sofia
A treasure trove for anyone interested in the history of technology, this low-key museum displays an intriguing (though not always well-labelled)…
Veliko Târnovo
Named for an early 20th-century Veliko Târnovo artist, this gallery is housed in a grand neoclassical building near the Asen Monument, in a tight bend of…
Bulgaria
Up on the cobblestoned ul Hristo Ivanov Golemia, the Ethnographical Museum is comprised of two mid-19th-century buildings with exhibits attesting to…
Museum of the Urban Lifestyle in Ruse
Ruse
Built in 1866 this elegant townhouse features some re-created period rooms, with 19th-century furniture, paintings and chandeliers upstairs. Downstairs…
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