World Heritage

Highlights

1. 1

   Nesebar

   A whole medieval town on a rock in the sea.

   2–4 h

   Cherubino · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
2. 2

   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
3. 3

   Srebarna Nature Reserve

   A Danube lake with one of Europe's dalmatian pelican colonies.

   1–2.5 h

   Zhivko77 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4. 4

   Boyana Church

   Eighty square metres of painting that arrived two centuries early.

   30–50 min

   Todor Bozhinov / Тодор Божинов · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
5. 5

   Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

   A Thracian burial chamber painted around 300 BC.

   20–40 min

   Roweromaniak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
6. 6

   Central Balkan National Park

   Nine strict reserves whose beech forests carry a World Heritage listing

   3–10 h

   Красимир Косев · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
7. 7

   Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

   Ten stone women holding up the roof of a Getic tomb

   45 min–1.5 h

   Unknown · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
8. 8

   Pirin National Park

   Marble ridges, seventy glacial lakes and a 1,300-year-old pine

   4–10 h

   kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
9. 9

   Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

   Chapels cut into a gorge wall, thirty metres above the river

   45 min–1.5 h

   Hans A. Rosbach · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
10. 10

    Stara Reka

    A strict reserve above Karlovo where you keep to the marked path

    2–6 h

    Evgord · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
11. 11

    Madara (Archeological Preserve)

    A horseman cut into the cliff face early in the eighth century

    1–2.5 h

    Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons