If you continue with the Danube to the east, around 50 kilometers, you will reach the city of Svishtov, which is a regional center, an important port, and a crossing point (ferry) on the Danube to Romania. It is the southernmost city on the Danube [...]

From Svishtov, it is a little more than an hour's drive to Ruse. It is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria (150,000 people), after Plovdiv, Sofia, Burgas, and Varna, and is an important port on the Danube and a gateway to Romania. Ruse is only [...]

Rusenski Lom Park is an area of spectacular cliffs along the River Lom, which is a tributary of the Danube, not far from the city of Ruse. The area was a favorite of monks who practiced the Hesychasm tradition during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The [...]

Silistra is the northeastern most city on the Danube, part of the Dobruja region—an important historical city with about 40,000 people. In the past, there was a Roman city called Dorostrum, from which several monuments remain, especially an impressive Roman tomb from the 4th century [...]

In the middle of the plains north of the mountains is the archaeological site of Pliska, which was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire until the time of Simeon I (late 9th century), who moved the capital to Preslav. Pliska was a huge city [...]

Halfway between Pliska and Preslav is the city of Shumen, where nearly 100,000 residents live. The word "Shumen" means a grove, and indeed the city is in the heart of wooded hills north of the Balkan Mountains. In the heart of the city there is [...]

Preslav is in a beautiful location at the foot of the Balkan Mountains. The city was chosen to be the capital of Bulgaria at the end of the 9th century by the greatest Bulgarian Tsar, Simeon I, instead of the nearby Pliska, where the priests [...]

The first to build the city of Plovdiv was Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, who conquered ancient Thrace and brought Hellenic culture to the region. He named the city after himself—Philipopolis. During the Roman period, Plovdiv became the capital of the province of [...]

Much has already been written and said about the beauty and uniqueness of the Rhodope Mountains, and about the impressive Thracian and megalithic sites. In addition to them, there are several important sites related to the Christian Bulgaria route, the most important of which are [...]

The cross on which Jesus was crucified is considered one of the most important holy relics in Christianity—an object believed to produce miracles. Over the years it was lost, but according to Bulgarian tradition, part of it is buried near the village of Borovo in [...]