The most legendary church in Bulgaria, lavishly decorated with priceless frescoes. Boyana church, St. St. Nicholas and Panteleimon" is not only the most representative monument of Bulgarian church painting, but also of all Orthodox art in...
The largest museum in Bulgaria and one of the largest in the Balkans. Its collection contains a vast archaeological and historical archive and over 680,000 exhibits. Most of them are exhibited in halls and in chronological order present...
26 prehistoric settlement mounds, 62 settlements from the Late Iron Age and 74 from the Roman age, 32 medieval settlements, 13 fortresses and 4 monasteries. An enviable wealth in such a small area!!! This is also the reason why scientists...
The life of one of the greatest Bulgarian writers takes place in the vast Danube plain. She and her people became an inspiration for his work and thus he became the "singer of Dobruja". Yordan Yovkov was born in Zheravna in 1880. He spent...
Despite the well-known stanza "The boiler does not burn", the city suffered several times from the fire element due to its dense construction and wooden houses. The great fire in 1894 almost wiped it off the face of the earth. The fire...
But the Pantheon of Georgi Rakovski enjoys the greatest respect in this city, which is also a museum of the Bulgarian revivalists, which has preserved relics that are valuable for every Bulgarian. The first hall of the museum, where the...
"Dimitar Dobrovich" Art Gallery - Sliven, dates back to 1905. In his will, the Renaissance artist Dimitar Dobrovich left 14 of his works to his hometown. With them, the young artist Yordan Kyuvliev arranges the first exhibition in the...
Sliven is famous as a craft center since then. It is not by chance that traders from Turkey, Poland and Hungary came here to the fair. The city was an important producer of arms, but mostly of woolen cloth. That is precisely why, in 1984,...
One of the most beautiful monuments in Sliven is to Hadji Dimitar Asenov /Hadji Dimitar/, whose creation was made possible thanks to generous donations from all over Bulgaria. He was born on May 10, 1840. When he was two years old, his...
"Military Cemetery-1916" memorial, Shumentsi village, is the largest military cemetery from the wars of national unification on the territory of the country. In 1913, Southern Dobrudja ended up within the borders of royal Romania. In two...