100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria


100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria is a Bulgarian national movement established in 1966 to promote tourism among Bulgaria's most significant cultural, historic, and natural landmarks.
As part of this program, sites of cultural and historical significance have been selected, ranging from historic places and monuments to archaeological and architectural sanctuaries, museums, monasteries, as well as national parks, mountain peaks and other geological phenomena. Each of the chosen landmarks has its own individual seal, which is stamped onto pages of an official passport-like booklet issued by the Bulgarian Tourist Union. A booklet can be purchased at any tourist union center or on location at any of the sites and it costs a symbolic 1 lev. The booklet comes with a separate map which includes a list of the sites, their addresses and working hours. The maximum number of collectible stamps per booklet is 100 and, contrary to the movement's title, the exact number of official sites exceeds the number 100.
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Rewarding

A reward scheme has been developed to encourage collection of as many stamps as possible. Depending on the number of stamps collected, participants may receive bronze, silver or gold badges. 25 stamps earn bronze, 50 stamps earn silver and 100 stamps earn gold. The National Organizational Committee of the BTU holds an annual lottery for the previous year's badge earners every August. Prizes include domestic and overseas excursions, bicycles, tents, sleeping bags, and other travel-related items.
Some landmarks in the original program highlighted Bulgaria's Communist government, which collapsed on November 10, 1989. In 2003 the BTU removed many of these sites from the official list. Both the original and current lists appear below. The list has since seen minor changes in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Program Participants

A variety of organizations and institutions participated in developing and promoting the 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria. These include:

One hundred national tourist sites

  1. Bansko — Velyanov House, Neofit Rilski Museum, Nikola Vaptsarov Museum, Permanent Icon Exhibition "Bansko Art School".
  2. a Bansko- Holy Trinity Church
  3. Pirin mountain — Vihren Peak
  4. Dobarsko village — Church of Theodore Tyro and Theodore Stratilates
  5. Melnik — Historical Museum of Melnik, Kordopulov House, 4a Rozhen Monastery.
  6. Petrich — Rupite Protected Area including St. Petka Church, 5a Samuil's Fortress National Park Museum, 5b Heraclea Sintica ancient Greek city.
  7. Nesebar —Nesebar Archaeological Museum
    6a Pomorie – Salt Museum, Pomorie, 6bLake Pomorie
  8. Burgas – Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Poda Protected Area, '7a Aytos rock formation "Three brothers"
  9. Malko Tarnovo — Petrova Niva Site, Museum of History
    8a. Sozopol — Archaeological Museum
  10. Varna — Museum of History and the Maritime Museum
  11. Devnya — Museum of Mosaics
  12. Veliko Tarnovo — Tsarevets archaeological reserve, Museum of History, Arbanasi architectural reserve
  13. Svishtov — Aleko Konstantinov's House
  14. Vidin — Konaka Museum and Baba Vida Fortress
  15. Magura Cave
  16. Belogradchik – Museum of History, Belogradchik Rocks.
  17. Vratsa — Ledenika Cave, Regional Museum of History
    16a. Mezdra – Kaleto archaeological complex
  18. Mount Okolchitsa — the place of Hristo Botev's death
  19. Kozloduy — Radetzky steamship-museum, Monument of Hristo Botev
  20. Gabrovo — Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex, Museum of Education, Uzana locality, House of Humour and Satire
  21. Bozhentsi village — Architectural and historical reserve
  22. Tryavna — Museum of the Wood-Carving and Ethnographical Arts
  23. Dryanovo — Dryanovo Monastery, Kolyu Ficheto Museum, Bacho Kiro Cave
  24. Dobrich — House of Yordan Yovkov, Art Gallery
  25. Balchik — Palace complex
    24a. University Botanic Garden
    24b. Kavarna — Kaliakra Headland, Kaliakra Archaeological reserve
  26. Kardzhali — Ruins of Perperikon, Monastery of John the Precursor
    25a. Regional Museum of History
  27. Kyustendil — Vladimir Dimitrov Art Gallery, House of Dimitar Peshev, Medieval Church of St George museum, regional historical museum
  28. Blagoevgrad – Varosha Quarter, regional historical museum
    27a. Ruen Peak in Osogovo Mountain
  29. Rila Monastery
  30. Skakavitsa Chalet and the Seven Rila Lakes
  31. Lovech — Vasil Levski Museum, Kakrina Inn
    30a. Karlukovo – National cave house
    30b. Devetaki – Devetashka cave
  32. Troyan — Natural History Museum at Cherni Osam, Troyan Monastery, Museum of Folk Arts
  33. Teteven — Museum of History
  34. Brestnitsa village — Saeva Dupka Cave
  35. Berkovitsa — Museum of Ethnography, House of Ivan Vasov.
  36. Pazardzhik — Church of Virgin Mary, House of Stanislav Dospevski, Regional Museum of History
  37. Panagyurishte — Oborishte locality, House of Rayna Knyaginya
  38. Peshtera — Snezhanka Cave, Peristera Fortress
  39. Batak — Museum of History
  40. Tran — the Gorge on the Jerma River
    39a. Pernik – Underground mining museum
  41. Pleven — St George the Conqueror Chapel Mausoleum, Pleven Panorama, Regional Museum of History
  42. Plovdiv — Roman theatre, Ethnography Museum, Museum of History.
  43. Perushtitsa — Museum of History
  44. Sopot — the Nunnery, House of Ivan Vazov
  45. Karlovo — Vasil Levski National Museum, Museum of History
  46. Kalofer — Hristo Botev National Museum
  47. Sandanski – Episcopal Basilica, Archaeological Museum
    46a.The Botev Peak
  48. Asenovgrad — The Bachkovo Monastery, Asenova krepost fortress, Museum of History
  49. Razgrad — Abrittus Archaeological reserve
  50. Isperih — Museum of History, Sboryanovo museum of history and archaeology, the Thracian town of Chelis and Demir Baba Tekke at Sveshtari village.
  51. Ruse — House of Zahari Stoyanov, Pantheon of National Revival Heroes
  52. Silistra — Museum of History, Medcidi Tabi fortress
  53. Srebarna Nature Reserve
  54. Tutrakan — Military Tomb Memorial Complex, Museum of Danube Fishing and Boat-Making.
  55. Sliven — House of Hadzhi Dimitar, National Textile Museum, Art Gallery
  56. Velingrad – Museum of History.
  57. Kotel — Georgi Sava Rakovski's Pantheon and the Museum of Famous People of the Bulgarian Revival Age, Natural History Museum
  58. Zheravna village — House of Yordan Yovkov.
  59. Sofia — The National Museum of History
    58a. Boyana Church National Museum
  60. Sofia — Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
    59a. National Museum of Military History
  61. Elena – House of Hilarion of Makariopolis, Daskalolivnitsa historical complex.
  62. Sofia — Earth and Man National Museum
    61a. National Palace of Culture
  63. Sofia — National Gallery for Foreign Art, maintained by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    62a. National Art Gallery
  64. Etropole — Museum of History, Clocktower, Monastery of the Holy Trinity
  65. Krestevic, Sredna Gora — Buntovna Commemorative Tourist Complex
  66. Sofia — National Museum of Natural History maintained by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  67. Sofia — Museum of the History of Sport located inside the Vasil Levski National Stadium
    66a. Sofia Zoo
    66b. National Anthropological Museum maintained by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  68. Starosel village — Thracian tomb
    67a. Hisarya — Archaeological Museum
  69. Sofia — Institute of Archaeology and Museum maintained by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    68a. National Polytechnical Museum
  70. Chiprovtsi – Museum of History, Chiprovtsi Monastery
  71. Bratsigovo — Town Museum of History
  72. Chirpan — House Museum of Peyo Yavorov, Nikola Manev Art Gallery, St. Athanasius monastery in Zlatna Livada village.
  73. Haskovo – Virgin Mary monument, Aleksandrovo tomb and museum centre.
    72a. Mezek – Medieval fortress, Thracian domed tomb.
    72b. Ivaylovgrad – Villa Armira, Municipal historical museum.
  74. Dimitrovgrad — History Museum, the House of Penyo Penev, Giordano Bruno observatory
  75. Vitosha — Aleko Chalet.
    74a. Cherni Vrah
  76. Koprivshtitsa — Archaeology and History Reserve
  77. Nova Zagora – Karanova Mogila museum.
  78. Klisura — Museum of History
  79. Osenovlag village — Seven Altars Monastery
  80. Samokov — Museum of History, the Nunnery.
    79a. Belchin village – Tsar Mali Town.
  81. Rila — Musala Peak
  82. Botevgrad — the Clocktower.
  83. Skravena village — monument at St. Nikolai Monastery to the members of Hristo Botev's detachment
  84. Smolyan — Museum of History.
    83a. Smolyan Planetarium
    83b. Momchilovtsi village
  85. Pamporovo — Uhlovitsa Cave, Snezhanka Peak
  86. Rhodope Mountains – Golyam Perelik Peak, The Wonderful Bridges
  87. Zlatograd — Ethnography Complex
  88. Rhodope Mountains – Shiroka Laka village archaeological reserve
    87a. Madan, Smolyan Province – Rhodope Crystal Hall, Sharenka Cave
  89. Rhodope Mountains – Trigrad Gorge.
  90. Rhodope Mountains – Yagodinska cave, Buynovo gorge
  91. Stara Zagora – the Neolithic Houses Museum, the Stara Zagora Defenders Memorial Complex, Museum of History.
  92. Kazanlak – Chudomir Art and Literature Museum, Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
  93. Shipka town — Shipka Memorial Church
  94. Shipka Pass — Shipka Memorial
  95. Shumen — Shumen Fortress Historical and Archaeological Reserve, Founders of Bulgaria Monument, Regional Museum of History
  96. Shumen — Tombul Mosque
  97. Pliska — Archaeological Reserve Pliska, Great Basilica, Pliska
  98. Madara — Madara Rider
  99. Veliki Preslav – National Historical and Archaeological Reserve
  100. Yambol — the ancient town of Kabile,
Museum of History
  1. Elhovo — Museum of Ethnography