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Monastery of Saint John of Rila

Monastery of Saint John of Rila

Monastery

The monastery that kept a written Bulgarian culture alive.

2–4 h

Balkan Mountains
Ivano Giambattista · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Balkan Mountains

Mountains

The ridge that splits Bulgaria in two and named the peninsula

3–8 h

Rhodope Mountains

Rhodope Mountains

Mountains

Two mountains in one: marble karst in the west, bare hills in the east

3–10 h

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Plamen Agov (MrPanyGoff) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Orthodox church

Sofia's gold-domed statement of independence.

30 min–1 h

Srebarna Nature Reserve

Srebarna Nature Reserve

Reserve

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

1–2.5 h

Boyana Church
Todor Bozhinov / Тодор Божинов · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Boyana Church

Orthodox church

Eighty square metres of painting that arrived two centuries early.

30–50 min

Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
Roweromaniak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

Thracian burial mound

A Thracian burial chamber painted around 300 BC.

20–40 min

Magura Cave
Nk · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Magura Cave

Cave

Prehistoric paintings drawn in bat guano.

1–1.5 h

Central Balkan National Park
Красимир Косев · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Central Balkan National Park

Nature

Nine strict reserves whose beech forests carry a World Heritage listing

3–10 h

Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

Thracian burial mound

Ten stone women holding up the roof of a Getic tomb

45 min–1.5 h

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Hans A. Rosbach · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

Orthodox church

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

45 min–1.5 h

Rila National Park
Красимир Косев · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Rila National Park

Nature

81,000 hectares of high Rila, with four strict reserves inside it

2–8 h

Vitosha
podoboq from Sofia, Bulgaria · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Vitosha

Mountains

A mountain of 2,290 metres that you reach on a city bus

4–10 h

Perperikon
Nenko Lazarov · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

Perperikon

Archaeological site

A city cut down into the rock rather than built on it

1.5–3 h

Nicopolis ad Istrum
Nk · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Nicopolis ad Istrum

Archaeological site

A Roman city Trajan founded to mark beating the Dacians

45 min–1.5 h

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