Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: The Bachkovo Monastery is located in the Rhodope Mountains and on the tentative list of UNESCO world heritage sites, and ...

Nestled in mountain forests an hour and a half south of Sofia, the Rila Monastery is Bulgaria’s most popular tourist destination. It is the country’s largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery ...

“This evening Lyudmila learned the history of the monastery near Zemen. From the Princess of Monaco. The former Hollywood star. But it was not a Hollywood script; she told her facts. Why exactly in ...

Bulgaria is rich in traditions and customs. Easter in particular is marked by special rituals and processions. At Bachkovo Monastery, founded in the 11th century in the Rhodope Mountains, monks and ...

Mountain views, beautiful coloured frescos and a fortress-like complex. Postcards explores Bulgaria's magnificent Rila Monastery, a spiritual centre for more than 1,000 years. Founded in the 10th ...

Inmates from Bulgaria's Stara Zagora prison visited Sunday the Rila Monastery to pray for forgiveness for the crimes they committed, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency informed. A total of 27 prisoners were ...

An Early Christian rock monastery in Northeast Bulgaria, which according to some historians andarchaeologists is the oldest of its kind in Europe, has been revived for the first time since the ...

The remains – small fragments of a skull, bones from a jaw and an arm, and a tooth – were discovered embedded in an altar in the ruins of the ancient monastery, on the island in the Black Sea. A Greek ...

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