List of World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria

There are ten UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria. The first four properties were inscribed in the World Heritage List in 1979, and the last in 2017.

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

World Heritage Sites

UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, whereas vii through x are natural.[2]

  * Transnational site
Site Image Location Year listed UNESCO data Description
Boyana Church Boyana quarter of Sofia
42°39′0″N 23°16′0″E
1979 42 A medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church
Madara Rider East of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the village of Madara
43°18′0″N 27°9′0″E
1979 43 An early medieval large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau
Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo Village of Ivanovo, south of Ruse on the Danube.
43°43′0″N 25°58′0″E
1979 45 Monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock
Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak Near the town of Kazanlak, central Bulgaria
42°37′0″N 25°24′0″E
1979 44 Ancient tomb, part of a large Thracian necropolis
Ancient City of Nessebar The old part of Nessebar, on the Black Sea, just north of Burgas
42°39′22″N 27°43′48″E
1983 217 Ancient part of town, situated on a peninsula (previously an island).
Rila Monastery Northwestern Rila Mountains, south of Sofia, in Rila Monastery Nature Park
42°7′0″N 23°24′0″E
1983 216 Medieval monastery, one of the region's most significant cultural, historical and architectural monuments
Pirin National Park Pirin Mountains in the southwest of Bulgaria
41°40′0″N 23°30′0″E
1983 225 Natural reserve
Srebarna Nature Reserve Just south of the Danube river, Southern Dobruja in northeast Bulgaria
44°6′51.98″N 27°4′41.02″E
1983 219 A nature reserve and lake on the Via Pontica bird migration route
Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari Village of Sveshtari, near Razgrad in northeast Bulgaria
43°40′0.01″N 26°40′0.01″E
1985 359 A Thracian tomb dating back to 3rd century BC
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe 42°44′58″N 24°40′19.42″E 2017 1133

Tentative List

See also

  • Lists of World Heritage Sites in Europe

Notes

  1. "UNESCO World Heritage Centre – Tentative List: Bulgaria". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on 23 June 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
  2. "UNESCO World Heritage Centre – The Criteria for Selection". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
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