World Heritage in Bulgaria

Boyana Church Madara rider Thracian tomb of Kazanlak Ivanovo rock churches Rila Monastery Nessebar Srebarna Pirin National Park Thracian tomb of Sveshtari Beech forests in the Central Balkans National Park

World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria yellow = world cultural heritage, green = world natural heritage

The world heritage in Bulgaria (as of 2018) includes ten UNESCO world heritage sites , including seven world cultural heritage sites and three world natural heritage sites. Bulgaria acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1974, and the first four World Heritage sites were added to the World Heritage List in 1979. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2017.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

 Map with all coordinates of the World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Boyana Church (Sofia) ( location )	1979	K	42	The church is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church in Sofia. The church is known for its frescoes from 1259.
(more pictures)	Rock relief of the rider of Madara ( location )	1979	K	43	The rider of Madara is an early medieval monumental relief near the town of Pliska.
(more pictures)	Thracian tomb of Kazanlak ( location )	1979	K	44	The grave is part of an excavation facility.
(more pictures)	Iwanowo rock churches ( location )	1979	K	45	The churches are located one kilometer east of the village of Ivanovo in the Russian Oblast.
(more pictures)	Rila Monastery ( location )	1983	K	216	The Monastery of St. Ivan Rilski , as it is fully called, is the main spiritual and literary center of the Bulgarian Revival, with an uninterrupted history from the Middle Ages to the present.
	Old town of Nessebar ( location )	1983	K	217	Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement (Menebria). Many of the preserved wooden houses in the old town date from the 19th century and are typical of the Black Sea architecture of the time.
(more pictures)	Srebarna Biosphere Reserve ( location )	1983	N	219	The Srebarna Biosphere Reserve is located on the Danube.
(more pictures)	Pirin National Park ( location )	1983	N	225	The national park is located in the extreme southwest of Bulgaria. There are 176 maars in the park .
(more pictures)	Thracian tomb of Sveshtari ( Lage )	1985	K	359	The grave dates from the 3rd century BC. BC and is a rare and very well preserved monument to the Thracian grave architecture. The half-human, half-vegetable caryatids are unique .
	Old beech forests and primeval beech forests of the Carpathian Mountains and other regions of Europe ( location )	2017	N	1133	Transnational World Heritage with Albania, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine. In Bulgaria there are 9 protected areas in the Central Balkan National Park .

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . As of 2018, 16 sites are entered in the tentative list of Bulgaria, the last entry was made in 2018. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Two Neolithic dwellings with their completely preserved interior fittings with household items and dishes	1984	K	44	Two neighboring dwellings from the 6th millennium BC In Stara Sagora with intact furnishings and household utensils. In 1985 the application was postponed by UNESCO
(more pictures)	Magura cave with Bronze Age paintings	1984	K	45	The cave is about 2.5 km long and karstified. There are paintings on the walls from the late Bronze Age to 1200 BC. To see.
(more pictures)	Ancient city of Nicopolis ad Istrum ( location )	1984	K	47	Nicopolis ad Istrum was an ancient Roman and early Byzantine city in the Roman province of Thracia, later Moesia inferior (Lower Moesia), which was founded by Emperor Trajan in 102 and existed until the invasion of the Avars and Slavs in the 7th century.
	Late antique tomb of Silistra	1984	K	48	Roman tomb from the 4th century in Silistra
(more pictures)	Batschkowo Monastery ( location )	1984	K	49	The monastery was founded by the Byzantine commander in 1083.
	City of Melnik and Roschen Monastery	1984	K	50	Throughout history there were 70 churches in Melnik and four monasteries in the vicinity. According to the chronicles kept in Athos , the Roschen monastery was founded in 890.
	Russensky Lom National Park	1984	N	54	Protected area of ​​rare bird species of the European fauna like the saker falcon , the Egyptian vulture , the golden eagle , the eagle buzzard etc.
	Ancient Plovdiv	2004	K	1948	The application was postponed in 1983 and withdrawn by Bulgaria in 2006. The ICOMOS had Plovdiv called not authentic enough.
	Thracian tomb of Alexandrovo	2004	K	1949	The tumulus with wall paintings dates from the beginning of the 4th century BC. Chr.
	Wratschansky Balkans Nature Park	2011	N	5639	The nature park is famous for its karst landscape.
(more pictures)	Belogradchik Rocks	2011	N	5640	A 10 km × 2 km wide rock area near the city of Belogradchik with over 200 smaller rock towers made of red conglomerate rock .
(more pictures)	Central Balkan National Park	2011	N	5641	Over half of the plant species found in Bulgaria grow in this national park. Of these, 10 plant species and 2 subspecies are endemic, i. H. not found anywhere else in the world.
(more pictures)	Pobiti Kamani ( location )	2011	N	5642	Stone forest of rocks that once stood on the sea floor.
	The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis	2016	K	6085	Seuthopolis , about 5 km west of the city of Kazanlak , was the seat of the Thracian king Seuthes III. The serial site includes eight tombs from Seuthopolis and is a planned extension of the World Heritage Site Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak (Ref. 44 ).
	Frontier of the Roman Empire - Danube Limes in Bulgaria	2016	K	6126	Planned expansion of the world heritage site borders of the Roman Empire includes 33 sites of the Danube Limes in Bulgaria
	Episcopal basilica and late antique mosaics from Philippopolis, Roman province of Trakien	2018	K	6287	The proposal includes the Bishops Basilica, the Small Basilica and the late antique house of Irene, which were built and used between the 4th and 6th centuries in Philippopolis, today's Plovdiv , in the Roman province of Thrace .

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bulgaria on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bulgaria. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 27, 2018 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Bulgaria. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 27, 2018 . 

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