The area of Rupite, Petrichko has long gained wide fame as the place where the most popular Bulgarian prophetess Vangelia Guscherova, known by the people as "Aunt Vanga", recharged her batteries and received visitors. In 1992, the...
100 National Tourist Sites
Rozhensky Monastery “Nativity of the Virgin”
The Rozhen Monastery is the largest monastery in the Pirin region and one of the few medieval Bulgarian monasteries preserved relatively intact to this day. The monastery was built in the 13th century. It is located about 5 km. from the...
Kordopulova House (also known as Cintsarova House)
The Kordopul House was built in the 19th century by a wealthy merchant. It is one of the most monumental Renaissance houses in the country. There is an exhibition of a mill cellar, carved in the form of a tunnel in the rock, with huge...
City History Museum (History, Ethnography)
The city history museum in Melnik is located in the Pasha's house, built in 1815 and consisting of a stone ground floor and a tiled floor with a lounge - a total of 8 rooms. On the ground floor of the museum, the main one is shown...
Church “St. St. Theodore Tiron And Theodore Stratilatus”
Dobarsko is a small mountain village in the Razlozhka valley. It is an old Bulgarian settlement. It is located on the front of a mountain ridge in southern Rila, a place with an altitude of about 1000 m. One of the well-preserved cultural...
Vihren Peak (2914 M.)
Vihren peak is 2914 m high. There is a weather station at 1950 m. The average annual precipitation is 1150 mm, and the snow cover reaches 3 m. Vihren with its 2914 meters is the leader of Pirin. The Thracians called the mountain Orbelos...
Holy Trinity Church, Bansko
The temple complex "Holy Trinity" is one of the biggest historical and cultural attractions of the city of Bansko. The church, which as an architectural type is a three-nave pseudo-basilica and is one of the largest in the country, was...
Permanent icon exhibition – Bansko
The permanent icon exhibition is arranged in the oldest and preserved building in Bansko - 1749. It was declared a cultural monument. The house performed the functions of a women's metoch to the Hilendar Monastery, and later to the Rila...
Nikola Vaptsarov Museum
The birthplace of the poet Nikola Vaptsarov was turned into a museum in 1952. After 3 reconstructions - 1960, 1979 and 1992 - the current exposition is made at a high professional level and is distinguished by the non-traditional method...
Neophyte Rilski House – Museum
The house is an architectural and constructional and historical cultural monument of national significance. This is the birthplace of Neophyte Rilski /Beninata/. He lived there until 1811. It is a typical example of Ban architecture from...