Places to Explore In Bulgaria

Discover the best places to explore in Bulgaria with curated recommendations from our travel experts.

Arbanasi

If you were to close your eyes and imagine a picture-perfect Balkan village, you'd be seeing Arbansi. It's tiny, with a population of less than...

  • 4 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 8 Things To Do

Belogradchik

Near the Serbian border is this town of 5,000 people, home to the 200-million-year-old Relogradchik Rocks. With northwestern Bulgaria's only natural science museum, an observatory...

  • 1 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 10 Things To Do

Black Sea Coast

The Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria stretches for 235 miles from the Romanian border in the north to the border with Turkey in the south...

  • 5 Restaurants
  • 4 Hotels
  • 5 Things To Do

Sofia

With a population around 1.4 million, Sofia is both the capital and largest city in Bulgaria. Having thrown off the shackles of Communism, it has...

  • 5 Restaurants
  • 5 Hotels
  • 5 Things To Do

Veliko Tarnovo

One of Bulgaria's oldest settlements, Veliko Tarnovo is a popular weekend getaway for Bulgaria's upper-middle-class urbanites and a stop on the backpacker trail. It's an...

  • 3 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 8 Things To Do

Vidin

Vidin sits right on the Danube River just across from Romania and is home to a diverse array of houses of worship—a synagogue, a mosque...

  • 3 Restaurants
  • 3 Hotels
  • 7 Things To Do

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