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Bulgaria

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One of Europe's oldest states and the cradle of the Cyrillic alphabet, Bulgaria hides Thracian gold, rose fields, and painted monasteries between the Black Sea and its mountains. Some of the oldest worked gold on Earth was dug from a grave near its coast.

The Centre (Plovdiv & the Roses)2 places

PlovdivTown · ●●●●○One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, where a Roman theatre still stages performances, painted…
The Buzludzha MonumentOddity · ●●●●○A colossal concrete flying saucer marooned on a Balkan mountaintop, built by the Communist Party in 1981 and left to…

The West (Sofia & Rila)1 place

Rila MonasteryPoint · ●●●●○Bulgaria's grandest monastery, set deep in forested mountains, its courtyard ringed by tiers of black-and-white striped…