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Monasteries

The places that kept the language alive

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Highlights

1
Monastery of Saint John of Rila
The monastery that kept a written Bulgarian culture alive.
2–4 h
Raggatt2000 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
2
Bachkovo Monastery
The second monastery of Bulgaria, founded by Georgians in 1083.
1–2 h
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3
Rozhen Monastery
The largest monastery in Pirin, and a two-hour walk from Melnik through the pyramids
30 min–1.5 h
Reinhard P. Braun~commonswiki · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
4
Troyan Monastery
Zahari Zograf painted the porch here in the 1840s
45 min–1.5 h
Unknown · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
5
Aladzha Monastery
A cave monastery cut into a cliff above Golden Sands, shut all winter
40 min–1.2 h
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6
Dryanovo Monastery
A nine-day siege in 1876, and Europe's oldest modern humans 300 m away
45 min–1.5 h
Todor Bozhinov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
7
Basarbovo Monastery
The only cave monastery in Bulgaria that still has monks in it
30 min–1 h
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
8
St. John the Precursor Monastery, Kardzhali
30 min–1.5 h
Олга (Olga) · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
9
Lopushna Monastery
A monastery near Georgi Damyanovo, in the north-west
30 min–1.5 h
Jonatand · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
10
Pomorie Monastery
A monastery founded, the story goes, by a Turk cured at its spring
30 min–1 h
Vassia Atanassova - Spiritia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Saint George Church, Trudovets
A church in Trudovets
30 min–1.5 h
Loquita desita · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
12
Peshtera Monastery
A monastery above the town of Peshtera
30 min–1.5 h
Miko Stavrev · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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