City Gallery of Fine Arts

Plovdiv


Occupying an 1881 girls gymnasium, this gallery contains more than 7000 artistic works by 19th- and 20th-century masters, including Nikolai Pavlovich, Konstantin Velichkov and Georgi Danchov.


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