List of World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria

Boyana Church

Madara Rider

Ivanovo

Kazanlak

Nessebar

Rila Monastery

Sveshtari

Pirin

Srebarna

Location of World Heritage Sites within Bulgaria

There are nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria. The first four properties were inscribed in the World Heritage List in 1979, and the last in 1985.

Bulgaria currently has fourteen additional properties on the Tentative List.^[1]

Inscribed

Cultural

Inscription year	Property	Location	Description	WHS i.d. no.	Photo
1979	Boyana Church	Boyana quarter of Sofia	A medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church	42
1979	Madara Rider	East of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the village of Madara	An early medieval large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau	43
1979	Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo	Village of Ivanovo, south of Ruse on the Danube.	Monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock	45
1979	Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak	Near the town of Kazanlak, central Bulgaria	Ancient tomb, part of a large Thracian necropolis	44
1983	Ancient City of Nessebar	The old part of Nessebar, on the Black Sea, just north of Burgas	Ancient part of town, situated on a peninsula (previously an island).	217
1983	Rila Monastery	Northwestern Rila Mountains, south of Sofia	Medieval monastery, one of the region's most significant cultural, historical and architectural monuments	216
1985	Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari	Village of Sveshtari, near Razgrad in northeast Bulgaria	A Thracian tomb dating back to 3rd century BC	359

Natural

Year	Property	Location	Description	WHS i.d. no.	Photo
1983	Pirin National Park	Pirin Mountains in the southwest of Bulgaria	Natural reserve	225
1983	Srebarna Nature Reserve	Just south of the Danube river, Southern Dobruja in northeast Bulgaria	A nature reserve and lake on the Via Pontica bird migration route	219

Tentative List

• Central Balkan National Park - 1984
• Ancient Town of Nicopolis ad Istrum - 1984
• Bachkovo Monastery - 1984
• Late Ancient Tomb of Silistra - 1984
• Magura Cave with Drawings from the Bronze Age - 1984
• Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument - 1984
• Rocks of Belogradchik - 1984
• Rusenski Lom National Park - 1984
• The Town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery - 1984
• Vratsa Karst - 1984
• Two Neolithic Dwellings in Stara Zagora - 1984
• The Ancient Plovdiv - 2004
• Tomb of Aleksandrovo - 2004
• Pirin National Park World Heritage Site - 2006

Gallery

• A fresco from the Boyana Church

• A view of the Ancient City of Nesebar

• Pirin National Park

• Rila Monastery

• Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

• Lake Srebarna

• A chariot race mural from the Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

• Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

• Drawings in the Magura Cave

• Melnik, uniting old architecture with natural beauty

See also

• List of World Heritage Sites in Europe

Notes

External links

• Bulgaria at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre

World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria Boyana Church Madara Rider Nesebar (Nessebar) Pirin National Park Rila Monastery Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo Srebarna Nature Reserve Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

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