Touring Bulgaria Photo Gallery

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31 July to 7 August 2025:

Plovdiv

Folk Seminar Plovdiv

7-10 August 2025:

Koprivshtitsa Festival

10 August 2025:

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15 August 2025:

Across the Thracian Plain towards the Rhodope Mountains

Dobarsko old 17th c. church in southwest Bulgaria on the southern slopes of Rila with the Rhodope Mountains to the east and Pirin to the South.

Dobarsko singing grannies

Bansko is a town in southwest Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad Oblast at the foot of the Pirin Mountains.

16 August 2025:

Bansko, church of the Holy Trinity ("Sveta Troitsa") and museum house of local icon and fresco painter Ognian Velev

Rila Monastery (the Monastery of Saint John of Rila) is an Eastern Orthodox Monastery, the largest in Bulgaria, founded in the tenth century in the valley of the Rilska River,.

Sofia

17 August 2025: northwest Bulgaria:

Veneza Cave

Belogradchik Rock Fortress is a well-preserved ancient fortress on the north slope of the Balkan Mountains, originally built by the Romans incorporating the natural rock formations.

18 August 2025:

Sofia

Boyana Church is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The east wing was bult in the 10th or 11th century, the central wimg was added in the 13th century, and the western epansion was built in the 19th century. Photography is not allowed inside. The church has magnificent frescoes.

Sofia's National History Museum is Bulgaria's largest museum. We were particularly interested in the Thracian treasures.

Sofia Synagogue is a Romaniote Orthodox Jewish congregation, the largest synagogue in southeast Europe, built in 1909.

19 August 2025:

central Sofia

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