UNESCO Heritage
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THE BULGARIAN CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD HERITAGE
For several decades now, under UNESCO aegis, attempts have been made to preserve the planet's most valuable cultural and natural heritage.
The UNESCO List of World Heritage now features over 300 landmarks.
Nine Bulgarian wonders - seven cultural and two natural sites - are included among them:
- Rila Monastery
- Nessebur
- the Kazanluk Tomb
- the Sveshtari Tomb
- the Madara Horseman
- Boyana Church
- the Ivanovo Rock Monasteries
- Pirin National Park
- Sreburna Lake.
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UNESCO Boyana Church
Located at the foot of the Vitosha Mountain in the Sofia suburb of Boyana. The church's unique feature are its murals. Even today, more than seven centuries later, they still stun visitors with their beauty, expressiveness and deep humanness.
Beside saints and martyrs the unknown artist has also paitned the figures of the donors - Kaloyan and Desislava - and the royal couple King Constantine ...
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UNESCO Ivanovo Rock Monasteries
Located on almost a cosmic landscape - rock massifs, enveloping the picturesque river valley near the city of Rousse. As if striving to be closer to God, hermit monks settled here during the 11th - 14th century, digging cells, churches and chapels into the rocks. Talented artists painted them with realistic frescos, exquisite in colour and composition, and turned them into a treasure trove of ...
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UNESCO Kazanluk Tomb
Located in the romantic Valley of Roses, near the town of Kazanluk. Built during the 4th century B.C. for a wealthy Thracian rules.
The perfectly preserved murals are a unique testimony of pictorial art during the Hellenic period. In a talented and realistic way the artist has conveyed both the rites of a bural feast, as well as the inner state of the figures.
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UNESCO Madara Horseman
An unusual place - a plateau rises in the middle of a plain which, when viewed from the west, resembles a petrified waterfall. At a height of 23 meters the figure of a horseman has been hewn into the sheer rock, piercing a lion with his spear, and flanked on both sides by inscriptions reflecting the military and political power of the First Bulgarian Empire.
This symbol of Bulgarian ...
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UNESCO Pirin National Park
Difficult of access, but singulary beautiful, the Pirin Mountains have always attracted man and yet remained an enigma. A protected area of 27,400 hectares is located in the northern and central mountain part.
About 60 alpine peaks, snow-capped for most of the year, rise above 2,500 m and eternal snow glitters at the bottom of the circuses. The clean mountain waters flow into more than 176 ...
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UNESCO Rila Monastery
"Of all the Bulgarian glory when there were so many large monasteries and churches in Bulgaria earlier, the Lord has left only Rila Monastery to exist in our times... It is of great use to all Bulgarians. Therefore, it is the duty of all Bulgarians to guard it, and to give alms to the sacred Rila Monastery...".
Paisii of Hilendar, Slav-Bulgarian Histiry (1762)
The chronicle of this ...
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UNESCO Sreburna Lake
Located mear the Danube, 16 km west of the town of Silistra. Sreburna is a fresh-water lake extending over an area of 600 hectares that has been declared a biospheric reserve.
About 100 different kinds of migratory birds nest here, including some disappearing ones like the Dalmatian pelican, cormoran, ibis, mute swan, egret and heron. About 21 species of amphibians and reptiles live in the ...
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