Prehistoric landmarks •  The Karanovo tell, 6 millennium BCE , is world-famous. •  The Museum of History in Varna houses the internationally renowned ‘Varna Gold', the oldest gold in the world and Europe's most ancient civilization, even older than the Mesopotamian and the Egypt civilization.

The Varna Gold - 4600- 4200 BCE

  The Thracians reached a high level of cultural development

       •  Fabulous gold and silver treasures evidence that one of the oldest civilisations in Europe        once inhabited these lands :

The Vulchitrun Treasure (16 -13 c. BCE);

The Gold Treasure of Panagyourishte (4 -3 c. BCE);

The Vratza Treasure (4 c. BCE);

The Kralevo Treasure (3 c. BCE).

The Thracian Temple at Kazanluk, 4-3c. BCE

•  The wonderful UNESCO painted Thracian Tombs of Kazanluk and Sveshtari
(4 - 3 century BC) are World Heritage Sites.

Numerous sites date back to the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Epochs

•  The open-air marble Roman Theatre in Old Plovdiv.

•  The ruins of the Roman cities of Nikopolis ad Istrum and Nikopolis ad Nestum

•  Nessebur, ancient Messembria, is a World Heritage site, famous for its late Byzantine churches.

Medieval Bulgaria was one of the most powerful countries in Europe

In the 9 century Bulgaria became the first Christian country in the area.

The old capitals are a glorious illustration of the epoch:

•  Pliska (7 - 9 centuries)

•  Preslav the Great (9 - 11 centuries)

•  Veliko Turnovo (12 - 14 centuries)

    Veliko Turnovo, The Fortress of Tzarevets, 12 -14 c.

Remarkable monasteries and churches treasure masterpieces of Orthodox icon and mural painting

•  The monasteries of Rila, which is an UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bachkovo, Troyan, Rozhen and Transfiguration, are fabulous examples of arts patterns of the time.

•  The world-famous Boyana Church, another UNESCO World Heritage Site

•  The rock-cell monastery of Ivanovo, also a World Heritage Site
                           Rila Monastery

•  The exposition in the crypt of St. Alexander Nevski Memorial Church in Sofia houses one of the world's richest collections of Orthodox icons.