Fortresses

Lyutitsa Fortress
Lyutitsa Fortress is located 5 km southwest of Ivaylovgrad, near Roman Armira Villa. It is one of the best preserved Bulgarian medieval fortresses and one of the biggest in the Eastern Rhodopes. It is also known as The Marble City and Kaloyan’s Citadel. […]

Thracian Cult Complex Senoklas
The Thracian Cult Complex of Hisarya is situated on the top of the Hisarya hill in the eastern Rhodope mountain, by the village of Senoklas. The village lies 15 km southeast of the town of Madzharovo. The Archaeological Complex includes a Thracian […]

Roman town of Deultum
The village of Debelt is situated 17 km south-west from Burgas. The name of the contemporary village of Debelt is a modification of the name of the antique town Deultum and the medieval Develt, the remains of which are located in the […]

Nikopolis ad Istrum
The ruins of the Roman and Early Byzantine town of Nikopolis ad Istrum are situated at about 20 km north of Veliko Tarnovo, on the road for Ruse, and 3 km southeast of the village of Nikyup. They are situated on a […]

Medieval Fortified Town of Cherven
The medieval fortified town of Cherven is situated at a distance of about 30 km south from the town of Ruse, within the borders of Rusenski Lom Natural Park. The town is heir of a Byzantine fortress of the 6th century and […]

Samuil’s Fortress
The Samuil’s fortress is situated on the right bank of the Strumeshnitsa river, 16 kilometers west of the town of Petrich. At the end of the 10th and the beginning of the 11th century AD, when the Bulgarian Kingdom, headed by tsar […]