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. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the ruins of Byzantine churches, wooden houses and cobbled streets.
It's next to the big resort of Sunny Beach, so it's crowded in summer. Go early or in the evening. Sozopol, further south, is another lovely old seaside town.
The capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, with houses stacked up the cliffs above the winding Yantra River.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, built on seven hills.
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 …
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 series of seven glacial lakes, one above the other, in the Rila Mountains, one of Bulgaria's most popular walks.
A UNESCO-listed national park of limestone and granite peaks, with more than 100 glacial lakes.
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