Near Lake Varna is a nearly 7,000-year-old cemetery that is considered one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world. Worked metals of copper and gold, obsidian glass, ceramics, and jewelry representing an ancient prehistoric culture called the "Varna culture" were found there. About [...]

To the north of the Balkan Mountains, there is an area of sloping hills extending for about 100 km to the Danube River. In this area lived the Getae Thracians – Dacian tribes. One of their centers was the sacred burial site of Sveshtari in [...]

Begliktash is a huge megalithic site near the Black Sea, considered the oldest megalithic site in Europe and one of the most impressive. The place was already sacred in prehistoric times, though some archaeologists claim it is “only” from the 10th century BC. It is [...]

Near the city of Haskovo, in the heart of the Thracian plain, is a Thracian temple-tomb from the 4th century BC. It is a World Heritage Site due to the importance of the unique paintings found there, among them a one-of-a-kind depiction of the Thracian [...]

The Maritza River, which begins in the Rila Mountains, flows northeast and then southeast toward the Mediterranean Sea for 500 km. Along its course, it passes through fertile valleys where the main cities of Bulgaria are located, including Svilengrad, which is not far from the [...]

Deaf Stones - (Gluhite Kamani)This is the easternmost megalithic site in the Rhodope Mountains, and one of the most beautiful among them, known as “The Deaf Stones.” It features hundreds of trapezoidal niches engraved and carved into giant rocks tens of meters high, stairways leading [...]

Dolni Glavanak Stone CircleIn the Eastern Rhodope region, within the drainage basin of the Arda River, lies the only free-standing stone circle discovered so far in Bulgaria. One of the defining characteristics of megalithic cultures across the world is the construction of stone circles. Everyone [...]

About 20 km from the city of Kardzhali lies one of the most mysterious sites in the Rhodope Mountains—a place considered to be the tomb of Orpheus: an ancient, giant megalith that resembles a human head when viewed from the air. According to the archaeologists [...]

Not far from Tatul, near the village of Raven, on top of a high rocky saddle surrounded by forests, lies another ancient and mysterious megalithic complex. Here, you can find two sunken rocky plazas with carved grooves, surrounded by stones and royal thrones. Similar to other [...]

Yagodina and Trigrad CanyonsIn the Rhodope Mountains, there are several mighty canyons with caves, flowing water, waterfalls, and rock walls that are a paradise for mountaineers. Yagodina is one of the most beautiful of them all—an impressive canyon where the width between the walls narrows [...]