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31 July to 7 August 2025: Plovdiv and Folk Seminar Plovdiv
7-10 August 2025: Koprivshtitsa Fesitval
10 August 2025:
Starosel Thracian cult center
11 August 2025:
rose valley
valley of the Thracian kings
Goliama Kosmatka tomb
Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
Shipka Pass
Shipka Church
open air craft Museum Etara
Bozhenzi village
farm stay Sobotkovzi village with a traditional Bulgarian dinner
12 August 2025:
Veliko Turnovo, former capital of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom
Citadel Zarevez royal residence
St. Peter and Paul's Church
Arbanassi village, frescoes in old museum churches and museum house
old Roman city Nicopolis ad Istrum
Ivanovo rock monastery 14th c frescoes in the chapel of the Virgin Mary (a Unesco World Heritage site)
Russe, on the Danube River
13 August 2025:
Sveshtaru Thracian tomb (a Unesco World Heritage site)
Madara horseman
Varna, on the Black Sea
14 August 2025:
south along the Black Sea coast to the old part of Nessebar old churches, Church of St. Stefan, and archeological museum
Stara Zagora Neolithic dwellings museum
History museum
old mosque that is now religions museum
15 August 2025:
Across the Thracian Plain towards the Rhodope Mountains
Dobarsko old 17th c. church
Dobarsko singing grannies
Bansko
16 August 2025:
Bansko, church of the Holy Trinity and museum house of local icon and fresco painter Ognian Velev
Rila Monastery
Sofia
17 August 2025: northwest Bulgaria:
Veneza Cave
Belogradchik Rock Fortress
18 August 2025:
Sofia
Boyana Church
National History Museum
Synagogue
19 August 2025:
central Sofia
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