Borovets is an International ski resort, located at the foot of

Mousala Peak in Rila Mountain. Borovets is huddled in

venerable coniferous forests which have given its initial
name Chamkoria. The altitude varies from 1230m to 1390m
and this influences the healthy climate in the resort.
The winter resort Pamporovo is situated at the foot of
The town of Bansko is a unique place well known as an
Snezhanka peak (1926 meters) in the Rhodope mountain, at
international tourist center. In addition to the beautiful
a distance of 260 km from Sofia, 85 km from Plovdiv and 16
Pirin Mountain and its nature, the town has a lot of
km from Smolyan.
historical buildings and sightseeing spots.
Who are the Thracian Kings? Thrace is historical and geographic area in southeast
Europe, and its biggest area was in a region, which is nowadays mostly inside the
borders of Bulgaria. The Thracians were organized in tribes and never really formed a
large cohesive country. Instead they had several kings rulling various regions. This
new information was gathered by studying the funeral mounds discovered across
south-central Bulgaria.
The Kazanlak valley, located in the
geographic centre of destination
Bulgaria is peppered with ancient
tombs dating from the 1st
century BC. To all Bulgarians this
is the Valley of the Kings, but only
for Bulgarians, well let say so far.
Kazanlak is the center of the
Valley of the Thracian Kings and
Roses. The country's largest and
best preserved Thracian tombs are
found here, and they are included
among the UNESCO World
Heritage Sites.
Thracian tomb from 4th 3rd century BC is situated in the Tyulbeto park. It is
known as the Kazanlak Tomb. This Tomb is one of the most significant
monuments of the Thracian culture in the Bulgarian lands, included in the list of
the global cultural inheritance of UNESCO in 1979.
 The ritual complex dates back Vc.BC and is used also as necropolis. The temple is architecturally unique
and is one of the most representative works of the Thracian architecture. This is the only Thracian temple
with columns into both: the porch and the camera.
 The Thracian tomb "Helvetia" mound near Shipka, Bulgaria, was built in the middle of the 4th
century BC.
Red is supposed to remind a sunrise, birth, new beginning and the black - the sunset, the end,
the death ...
On-site archaeologists discovered skeleton of a horse on the altar, which blood drained in the
ground thru a furrow the sacrificial animal went back where it came from - in the bowels of the
mother earth, and that way Thracians were able to predict the future of their people and ruler
 One of the most iconic temples discovered in the Valley of the Kings . At the southern edge of the mound
in 1993 was discovered fundamentally new type of Thracian burial facility . It was built ready mound in the
middle of IV century BC . and remained some time outdoors.
 A masonry grave was discovered in the mound on 19 August 2004, in which a funeral of a representative of
the Thracian aristocracy from the second half of the 5th century BC had taken place.
Some of the skeleton bones were found in the tomb in anatomical order, but others were missing, which
makes researchers assume that the buried person had been a follower of Orpheus
 This is the first tomb in the history of Thracian Studies, known to be dedicated to a particular person -
famous military commander, politician and statesman Seuthes III, who tried to unite the Thracian tribes in
Odrysian state in the end of the IV century BC and to oppose Philip II and Alexander Macedonian.The
mound is piled up as a sacred hill in the first half of the 5th century BC.