Blagoevgrad

The region of Blagoevgrad covers parts of three of the biggest Bulgarian mountain ranges - Rila, Pirin and Rhodope -and is also known as the Pirin region, named after the Pirin Mountains, dominating its territory like a majestic pillar.

The city of Blagoevgrad is the ma more »

Bansko - a ski resort with an atmosphere

Bansko is located at the foot of the Pirin Mountains and right below the Pirin National Park, included in the List of World Nature Heritage. The town itself attracts visitors with its 120 cultural monuments, its museum-houses and the permanent ethnographic and Bansko school of ic more »

Bourgas

The city is a starting point for visiting the seaside resorts in the area - Sunny Beach resort and Elenite holiday village to the north and Duni holiday village, renowned for its unique architectural composition, to the south.
The port of Bourgas is the biggest Bulgarian sea p more »

Haskovo

Haskovo municipality is a transport crossroads between Europe, the Near East and the Middle East, which is a good prerequisite for international commercial and cultural exchange. The basic bus and railway connections between the entrance and the exit boundary points in Bulgari more »

Kyustendil

Driving on highway E 97, you have to turn to the west near the town of Dupnitsa to reach the administrative centre of the region, Kyustendil. Thus, you will be travelling on the oldest road which connected Constantinople with Bosnia and the region of the Adriatic more »

Pazardzhik

Pazardjik was founded during the second half of the 15th century, on the left bank of the river Maritza, near the place of the market of the region.

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Prnik - the fortress town

Pernik is known as a fortress, which was defended by the boyar Krakra (11th c.) It was the only one left unconquered by the Byzantine emperor Vassilius the Second, called latter Bulgarian-killer.

The tourist sights in the town are the Hi more »

Plovdiv - contemporary of Troy

Plovdiv is very, very old, indeed more ancient than Bulgaria itself. "The Eternal City", as Rome is conventionally called, is much younger. Athens, Carthage and Constantinople came into being later. A contemporary of Troy and having survived Mycenae, Plovdiv is a city upon lay more »

Sliven

Sliven is situated at the foot of the unique rock massif "Siniteh Kamani" (The Blue Stones), very close to mineral springs. The town is famous for its clean fresh air, clean water sources, mild winter and cool summer.
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Smolyan

The town of Smolyan is the most important location in the Central Rhodopes, scattered in the narrow gorge of the river Cherna, about 1,000 m above sea level.
In 1960 the three neighbouring villages of Smolyan, Raikovo and Ustovo merged into a town, more »

Stara Zagora - An important crossroads

Stara Zagora is situated in southern Bulgaria, surrounded by the vast fields of the Upper Thracian Lowland and parts of the Sarnena Sredna Gora Mountains. It is one of the biggest towns in the country, with a population of 150,000 inhabitants.
It serves as a central connec more »

Velingrad

Velingrad is one of the oldest, most beautiful and most famous Bulgarian spa resorts. It lies at the western end of Chepino Valley, one of the most attractive parts of the Rhodope Mountains.
The numerous archaeological findings, such as stone and bone tools, bronze artefac more »

Yambol

Coming from the remote past, going to the future is the motto of this ancient town.
The town is situated on the banks of the river Toundja. The territory of the area covers the middle part of the river valley, the “Bakadjitsi”, parts of the Svetiliiski, Derventski and Mana more »

Dobrich

Dobrich is situated almost in the centre of the Dobrudzha plateau, 50km to the north of Varna. It was called Dobrich after the name of a former ruler - the boyar Dobrotitsa.
Some of the sights in Dobrich are the museum of Yordan Yovkov (the famous Bulgarian writer), the rui more »

Rousalka Holiday Village

Nestling in the picturesque Taukliman Bay (Birds Bay, in the thick of a venerable oak wood, Rousalka Holiday Village offers unforgettable vacation in an ecologically pure surrounding. Roussalka holiday village is the perfect blend of unspoilt nature and original architecture. more »

Lovech

Lovetch is located at the boundary between the Danube Plain and the northern foothills of the Balkan Range.
The town was an important centre during the Bulgarian Revival and of the struggle for national liberation.
The area around has been inhabited since prehistoric times more »

Gabrovo

The municipality of Gabrovo and the surrounding area is considered one of the most ecologically clean regions in Bulgaria. The rich flora and fauna go to prove that.
In the immediate vicinity of Gabrovo is the geographical centre of Bulgaria
The most picturesque place i more »

Montana

Montana is the centre of the administrative region. It is situated in northwestern Bulgaria along the Ogosta River.
The town originates from the old Roman stronghold Castra ad Montanezium (a stronghold in the mountain), known also as Montana. The labour tools, ornaments, coin more »

Berkovitza

Traditional Berkovitsa Pottery forms are expedient, functionally connected to people’s every day life. They are described as ones having proportional purity, clearness and explicitness, simplicity and genuine strength. Graceful line of an upside down trapezium with a well expr more »

Pleven

Pleven is located in the very heart of Miziya, in an agricultural region, surrounded by low limestone hills. Its central location in Northern Bulgaria defines its importance as a large administrative, economic, political, cultural, and transport centre.Pleven has a rich histor more »

Razgrad

The archaeologists have not determined Razgrad's birth date with precision yet. It is only certain that people have inhabited the picturesque valley of the river Beli Lom since ancient times. The three prehistoric settlement mounds testify to that.
The first class road Rousse more »

Ruse

Rousse is the centre of an administrative region. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube at the mouth of the river Roussenski Lom.
Rousse is the biggest Bulgarian port town on the bank of the river Danube.
With the opening of the Rhein - Main - Danube canal whi more »

Shumen

Shoumen sprang from an old Roman and Byzantine fortress, overlooking a passage from the Danubе Plain to the mountain passes of the Balkan mountains. Shoumen was a thriving economic and cultural centre during the period of the Bulgarian National Renaissance. Unique monuments of more »

Silistra

Silistra is more of a fortress than a town and if you eliminate the fortifications a small piece of land will remain, but if you look at the entrenched area, the fortress is vast. It is located on a riverside plain. The south Danube banks rise like hills and their chains appro more »

Targovishte - Variety of geographical formations

The territory of Targovishte region is characterised with variety and merging of a plain, undulating, and low mountain geographical formation, due to which the height above sea level varies from 150 to 690 meters. The natural gifts and the location of Targovishte municipality more »

Turnovo

Once you've been to Veliko Turnovo, your heart is forever captured by its magical beauty and splendour. It is a magic called love. A love, that teems everywhere. Finally, you become an inseparable part of its magnificence and eternity.
This is a place on Earth where the fu more »

Varna

Varna is Bulgaria's third largest city. It was an inhabited place even before the Greeks established the colony of Odessos there about 580 B.C. Later, under the Romans and their successors, the Slavs, Varna became a major port trading with Constantinople, Venice and Dubrovnik. more »

Golden Sands

The resort is the largest one on the Northern Black Sea coast. It is situated 17 kilometers away from Varna. The mineral waters, the warm sea and the wonderful beach as well as the marvelous deciduous wood turn the resort into one of the pearls of the Bulgarian coast. Its beac more »

Pliska - the first capital of Danubian Bulgaria

Two kilometers away from of today's town of Pliska (prev. name Aboba) are the remains of the imposing construction of Pliska –the first capital of Danubian Bulgaria, founded in 681 by Khan Asparoukh. It existed until 893 – 894 when the capital was moved to Veliki Preslav by Ts more »

Vidin

Vidin has existed since the beginning of AD chronology. A first century BC tombstone lets us know that it is the only town in Bulgaria that has been standing where it is for 2000 years now. The Celts called it Bononia.The Bulgarians conquered it during the reign of Khan Tervel more »