2. Perperikon
In South-Eastern Bulgaria is one of the biggest and most
ancient fortresses in Europe towers.
A stone city, that has survived for almost 6500 years, with
its houses, streets, water storage basins and ruler’s palace.
Nowadays, it is only a carved rock in the sacred for the
ancient people Rodopi Mountain, but still keeps the
mysterious name of Perperikon.
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7. Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
The tomb is part of a large Thracian necropolis. It
comprises a narrow corridor and a round burial chamber,
both decorated with murals representing a Thracian couple
at a ritual funeral feast.
The monument dates back to the 4th century BOT and has
been on the UNESCO protected World Heritage Site list
since 1979.
The paintings are Bulgaria's
best-preserved artistic masterpieces
from the Hellenistic period.
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9. Great Basilica, Pliska
The Great Basilica of Pliska is an architectural complex
in Pliska, the first capital of the First Bulgarian
Empire (7th–9th century), which includes acathedral,
an archbishop's palace and a monastery.
Completed around 875, the basilica was the largest
Christian cathedral in medieval Southeastern
Europe outside Constantinople, with an area of 2,920
square metres
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12. Madara horseman and fortress
In the middle of a sheer cliff in the Еastern end of the
Balkan Mountain Range is the oldest stone relief in Europe
– the Madara Horseman was carved.
It is one of the most enigmatic monuments in UNESCO’s
World Heritage List.
The scholars consider it’s been made about 1300 years ago,
in the early 8th century.
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14. Within 20 km from Madara Fortress, on top of another high
plateau, the medieval stronghold - Shumen Fortress is
situated. People settled here about 6000 years ago and the
first fortification was built during the Trojan War.
The city-fortress flowered in the Middle Ages. There was
even a mint. The legend has it that Bulgarian kings had one
of their residence palaces here and somewhere in its
basement the royal treasure was hidden. It hasn’t been
found since…
Hundreds of houses and churches, resting in ruins, behind
the thick fortress walls, form an enigmatic labyrinth.
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16. Samuil’s Fortress
Samuil’s Fortress is one of the most important medieval
castles, preserved to this day the Bulgarian lands. Samuil's
Fortress has great historical significance, mostly because of
the key events and turning points of history of Bulgaria,
which originated in the lands around it.
Samuil's Fortress Today is the emblem of the historic
grandeur of the former Bulgarian state, but simultaneously
it is a great reminder of the tragedy that happened here in
1014.
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18. Nesebar
Nessebar is the historic treasury of Bulgaria and in 1956 it
was declared and recognized as museum city –
archaeological and architectural reservation.
Valuable monuments from all stages of its long existence
are preserved here: remnants of fortress walls from Roman
times and the Middle Ages, old Byzantine and Bulgarian
churches, antique 18th and 19th century houses.
The greatest treasure of the town are the numerous
churches.
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21. Rogozen Treasure
The treasure now consists of 165 containers, all made of
silver, 131 of them with golden decorations.
This is the biggest treasure ever found in Bulgaria.
Inscriptions on some of the items show they belonged to a
Thracian king.
Historians believe they have found one almost complete
royal set that was
hidden in the ground.
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24. Balchik Palace
In 1940, after the reincoporation of Southern Dobruja
in Bulgaria with the Treaty of Craiova, the Balchik
Botanical Garden was established at the place of the
palace's park.
One of the garden's main attractions is the collection of
large-sized cactus species arranged outdoors on 1000 m²,
the second of its kind in Europe after the one in Monaco.
Other notable species include the Metasequoia, the Para
rubber tree and the Ginkgo.
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27. The Rila Monastery
While the monastery has been existing, it was many times
rebuilt, destroyed and reconstructed. It is the biggest and
the most respected Bulgarian monastery.
The monastery is a complex of cultural, dwelling and
farming buildings which take about 8800 square meters.
The Rila Monastery has an unique architecture.
Outside, the monastery
looks like a fortress. It has
24-meter stone walls
which forms irregular
pentagon.
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31. Veliko Tarnovo
Often referred to as the „City of the Tsars“, Veliko Tarnovo is
located on the Yantra River and is famous as the historical
capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, attracting many
tourists with its unique architecture..
Tsarevets housed the palaces of the Bulgarian Emperors
and the Patriarchate, as well as a number of administrative
and residential edifices surrounded by thick walls.
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33. St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Bulgarian
Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It’s
one of the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedrals in the
world, as well as one of Sofia's symbols
There is a museum of Bulgarian icons inside the cathedral
crypt, part of the National Art Gallery. The church claims
that the museum contains the largest collection of
Orthodox icons in Europe.
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36. Melnik
The unique architecture of Melnik and the nearby Rozhen
Monastery make it a popular tourist destination.
The town is also associated with the impressive natural
sand pyramids in various forms, resembling
giant mushrooms, ancient towers and obelisks, spread in
an area of 17 km² near Melnik, Kurlanovo and Rozhen.
The town has also been famous for producing a strong wine
since at least 1346. The local
wine was reportedly
a favourite of Winston
Churchill's.
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38. Belogradchik Rocks
The Belogradchik Rocks is one of the most famous and
most impressive nature phenomenon in Bulgaria.
They are a group of bizarre sandstone and limestone rock
formations with different and amazing shapes, reaching up
to 200 m in height.
The most characteristic peculiarity of the Belogradchik
Fortress is the perfect inclusion of the unapproachable
rocks in the whole fortress
system.
Three construction periods can
be seen in the buildings –
Roman and Byzantine ,
Byzantine and Bulgarian
and Turkish.
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43. Seven Rila lakes
The Seven Rila Lakes are a group of lakes of glacial origin
(glacial lakes), situated in the northwestern Rila
Mountains inBulgaria. The lakes are situated between 2,100
and 2,500 metres elevation above sea level.
The lakes are located one above the other and are
connected by small streams, which form tiny waterfalls and
cascades. You can find tourist accommodation in the lakes'
vicinity. It lies on the northeastern shore of The Fish Lake,
at an elevation of 2,196 m
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47. Ledenica cave
Its name, Ledenika, comes from the icy stalagmites,
stalactites and columns, which are formed during the
winter at the beginning of the cave near the entrance.
There is a small, shallow sinter lake, which according to a
belief fulfills the desire of everyone who puts their hand in
it. 53 species live inside it, among which is the insect Light-
hater, which has adapted so well to the darkness, that if it
goes out in the light, it dies.
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50. Created by
Simona Ivanova - 10th grade
Joan Ekzarh Language School
Vratsa, 2012
