The capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, with houses stacked up the cliffs above the winding Yantra River. On a hill above the town, the Tsarevets fortress has walls, the ruins of the royal palace and the patriarch's church. On some evenings, a sound and light show lights up the hill.
The Samovodska Charshiya is an old street of craft shops. Nearby, Arbanasi village has fortified houses and painted churches. It's about 3 hours from Sofia.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, built on seven hills.
An ancient town on a small rocky peninsula on the Black Sea coast, linked to the mainland by a narrow causeway, with more than 3,000 years of history.
One of the largest Orthodox cathedrals in the world, with gold domes, built in memory of the Russian soldiers who died freeing Bulgaria from Ottoman …
A series of seven glacial lakes, one above the other, in the Rila Mountains, one of Bulgaria's most popular walks.
Bulgaria's most famous monastery and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, founded in the 10th century by the hermit St Ivan of Rila and rebuilt after a fire…
A UNESCO-listed national park of limestone and granite peaks, with more than 100 glacial lakes.
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