Bulgaria

Country of sunny people, nature giving health, antique and medieval sights, live folklore, delightful dishes, of wonderful scenery, a great tourist destination with various attractions, country of old traditions, national treasures, of impressive cultural heritage and historic monuments.

Country overview

• Founded: 681 A.D.
• Location: Situated in the south-east part of Europe, in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula;
• Boundaries: Northern boundary with Romania, western with Serbia, south-western with Macedonia, south – with Greece, south-eastern with Turkey. Eastern boundary with the Black Sea;
• Territory: 111 000 sq. km.;
• Population: 7 801 273 (census taken in 2003);
• Capital city: Sofia (1 208 930 inhabitants);
• Larger cities: Varna, Plovdiv, Burgas, Stara Zagora, Ruse, Pleven;
• Monetary unit: Bulgarian Lev (BGN) (1 EURO = 1.95583 Levs)
• Official language: Bulgarian
• Religion: Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Bulgaria is generously gifted with natural landmarks and a diversity of landscape, rich variety of flora and fauna, abundance of curative mineral springs, ancient cultural and historical sites, hospitable sea resorts, perfect opportunities for skiing, breath-taking natural phenomena...

Tourist possibilities

• Sea Vacations;
• Ski Tourism;
• Cultural and Historical;
• Ethnographical, Wine & Dine;
• Rural and Eco tourism;
• Adventure Tourism;
• Balneology, Spa & Wellness

Five reasons to visit the Rhodope Mountains

The Rhodope Mountains are one of the oldest mountains in Bulgaria and some people resemble them to a sea of dark-green hills merging into one another. A single instant of feasting your eye on the beautiful panorama and breathing in the crystal pure air is enough to make you fall in love forever with the magic Rhodopes and its nature and culture. If you decide to visit the region you will rest in harmony with nature, preserving in the mountains recesses wild and untouched corners of beauty combined with an unbelievable variety of plants and wildlife. In a very long period in these places have passed many people and nevertheless this area and local nature has preserved untouched by a human places. This is the reason for the region to be like a reserve with rarely seen species and animals.

• unique by diverse landscape, protected flora and fauna
• fascination from the mix of antiquity and contemporaneity
• abundant in human and natural treasures
• combination of culture, history, habits, cuisine dating back from ancient times
• enchantment of Thracian traces, sacral places, legends and myths