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Great Tour in Bulgaria |
This Tour will guide you to discover the Rila mountain, the Black Sea coast and the Danube river.
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| 10 days/9 nights |
| 1st day : London – Sofia |
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Arrival in Sofia. Your guide will be waiting for you at the airport. Sofia, the Bulgarian capital is located at the foot at the Vitosha Mountain. Walking tour, visit the cathedral Aleksander Nevski, the church St.Sophia, the Ancient Royal Palace.
Dinner and accommodation in the hotel. |
| 2nd day : Sofia - Rila Monastery– Bansko |
Depart for the Rila monastery, the most important spiritual Middle-Ages centre in Bulgaria.
Founded in the XX century, in one grandiose style the monastery preserve rich collection of icons and art objects. Visit the museum of the monastery. Lunch and continue to Bansko, famous ski station and museum town preserving lots of monuments from the period of the Bulgarian Renaissance. Explore the historical centre of the town. Visit the church Sveta Troitsa (Holy Trinity), 1835.
Bansko is famous for its well-preserved traditions and culture, its original Revival-period architecture and its local culinary specialities. Accommodation in hotel, dinner in local tavern, accompanied by a performance of Men's Vocal Group. |
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| 3rd day : Bansko – Plovdiv |
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Depart to Plovdiv, city located in the Thracian field , on the Maritza’s coasts.
The second Bulgarian town is famous with his history, architecture and its artistic ambience.
There is a proverb that says:” If you didn’t see Plovdiv, you don’t know Bulgaria”, because this romantic town symbolises the country. Exploring the Old Town discovering ancient houses with porches from the Bulgarian Renaissance, visit the Ethnographic museum and an atelier for pottery.
Lunch and depart to the Monastery of Batchkovo , located in the charming town of Batchkovo on the Tchaya river. Founded at 1083 by the Byzantine military commander of Georgian origin, Grigorii Bakuriani. It was restored towards the end of the XVI century with the dining hall having been reconstructed in 1601, and the present-day church, Virgin Mary, – in 1604.
Return to Plovdiv. Accommodation in the hotel, dinner. |
| 4rt day : Plovdiv - Nessebur – Varna |
After breakfast depart to Nessebar, located on a small peninsula in the Black Sea. Visit the town , included in the list of the cultural heritage of UNESCO. Systematic archaeological studies, reinforcement, restoration and conservation have preserved the material traces of history more than anywhere else. The small peninsula is a meeting place of bygone times. The millennia of uninterrupted human occupation (the earliest traces of human settlement date back to over 3000 years ago) have produced an impressive cultural layer .Lunch. Continuing to Varna. Accommodation in hotel. Dinner. |
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| 5th day : Varna |
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Depart for Varna, the third city in Bulgaria, called the “The maritime capital” and “The Pearl of the Black Sea coast” Visit the cathedral, the Opera, the main street Kniaz Boris.
Visit the Archeological museum where is exposed the oldest gold in the world 4 years BC Tasting in the Club of the Wine Lovers of Varna, unique in Bulgaria with its rich collection of 500 bottles of wine. Presentation of traditions of the wine production in the country will take place. Lunch. Leisure time.
Before coming back to the hotel visit the rock monastery Aladja, one of the many medieval rock monasteries found in the northeastern part of Bulgaria .Dinner accompanied by folkloric spectacle. |
| Jour 6 : Varna –Pobiti kamuni – Madara - Rousse |
Depart to Madara.. On the way visit of one nature phenomena “Pobiti Kamuni”. This is the Stone Forest located in the western part of Varna lowland and it consists of cylindrical stone columns fixed in a small desert. The stone columns have porous surface and rise to an altitude of 5 - 6 m. They are built of limy sandstones, containing many fossils - nummulites, mussels, snails. The majority have a smaller or bigger cavity, some are horizontally cracked. The cylindrical stone columns form several groups somewhere between the town Beloslav and the villages Strashimirovo, Slunchevo, Banovo and Povelyanovo with a total area of 50 km2.
The first impression is of a ruined temple but scientists have discovered that it is a geological formation of stalagmites some fifty million years old.
Visit the museum of the Roman mosaics in the ancient town of Marzianopolis
The Madara Horsemen representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria's conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that occurred between A.D. 705 and 801.
Lunch in a typical Bulgarian farm, tasting of Banitsa(Cheese pastry) and the famous Bulgarian yogurt. Depart to the Danube river , visit on the way the Thracian tomb of Svechtari .Continuation to the town of Rousse , located on the Danube river coast.
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| 7th day : Rousse – Arbanassi – Veliko Turnovo |
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Depart to the rock monastery of Ivanovo , protected by UNESCO .
Continuation for Arbanassi, place attracting many visitors with his ancient houses from the XVII century. Lunch.
Visit the Birth of Christ church (1637 - 1649), dug into the ground without a belfry and with hidden cupolas, but hiding a genuine art gallery with over 3,500 stunningly realistic figures and Biblical scenes, painted by unknown artists throughout the ages. Lunch and continuing for Veliko Turnovo .
Veliko Turnovo, one of the most ancient Bulgarian towns, is situated amphitheatrically on 4 hills - Tsarevets, Trapezitsa, Momina Krepost and Sveta Gora, the ridges of which were indeed the deeply inclined steep banks of the meanders of the river Yantra. Tsarevets was the capital of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom in the 12th century AD. The fateful events from the 13 centuries old Bulgarian State are related to this town, such as the Second Bulgarian Kingdom's apogee in the 12th and 13th centuries AD and the adoption of the First Bulgarian Constitution in 1874. Discover the historic landmarks of the former citadel on Tzarevets, the tower of Baldouine and the artisan’s street.
Free time.Accomodation in hotel, diner.
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| 8th day : Veliko Turnovo - Etara - Kazanluk |
Depart for Etara, village museum located in the Balkan. After the breakfast, visit the open air museum unique in Bulgaria .The workshops and shops located on the opposite left bank make up the so-called arts and crafts street. The two-storey houses are exact copies of the houses of famous old masters, with shops and workshops on the ground floor and the living quarters above them. In this case, too, the various mechanisms, the arrangement of the workshops and the manual tools are completely authentic.The shops sell pottery, leather items, gold, silver and copper articles, old Bulgarian music instruments, etc.Lunch. Continued for the Valley of the roses through the Shipka Pass. The Church of Nativity in Shipka is one the the most sacred monument in Bulgaria and is stunningly beautiful. Indeed, one of the most decisive battles was fought on this site, during the Russian- Turkish .In Kazanluk visit the ‘Museum of the Roses’, followed by comfiture and liqueur of roses tasting . Concert of orthodox choral in the museum , where are exposed the Thracian treasures. Accommodation in hotel and dinner. |
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| 9th day : Kazanlak – Koprivshtitza - Sofia |
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Depart to Koprivshtitsa, passing by the valley of the roses. Situated in the recesses of Sredna Gora Mountain, the town of Koprivshtitsa stands at 1060 meters altitude where you can see more than 100 ancient houses from XVIII and XIX centuries. Lunch. Continuing for Sofia , dinner and accommodation in hotel. |
| 10th day : Sofia |
After the breakfast, depart to Sofia. Visit the National Historical museum located in Boiana -an elegant residential district. Transfer to the airport. |
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