E' the much singular feeling that the visitor tries crossing the threshold of the solid ones portoni of wood of the Bulgarian monasteri in order to penetrate in the quiet ones of their courtyards, adorns you of rigogliosi boxwoods, flowers variopinti under trellis works loaded with lives, of the silver and canori stone Fontanas of zampilli.

For their architecture and furnishing the convents somigliano to the risorgimentali houses. Icone that they adorn the their churches are scevre of misticismo and asceticism, rigidity elements: the eyes of know to you are the intelligent eyes of alive persons, of persons who have one rich inner life. The rich and smaglianti colors of fresco defy the time in order to within exalt the talent of their craftsmen - formed masters the people.

The monasteri have had a particular role in the Bulgarian history. In the monasteri it rose, one became rich and the national culture was conserved. In the period of giogo Ottoman (the XIV-XIX sec.) in the convents it was only possible to conserve and to multiply the created spiritual values from the people. Later, in the age of the Renaissance and the movement of national liberation (XVIII-XIX sec.), they divennero centers of illuministica and revolutionary activity, sure shelter of the militants for the freedom.

Today the monasteri are precious monuments of the culture. They are protected, maintained in good state and restore to you. They are visits to you from migliaia of persons of every part of the world who carry with himself the memory of the immortali works of the Bulgarian masters.

• The Monastero di Rila
• The Monastero di Drianovo
• The Monastero di Backovo
• The Monastero di Troian
• The Monastero of the Trasfigurazione
• The Monastero di Rozhen
• Tempio-Monument of the Shipka
• Monastero di Gorni Voden “Sveti Kirik the Yulita”
• The Monastero di Rila

The main church of the convent arouses the admiration of the visitors with its frescoes, icone and carvings of wonderful beauty and force of the artistic suggestion. Exponents of the schools of painters of Samokov and Raslog have worked you, between which Zahari Zograph, Stanislav Dospevski, Dimitar Molerov, Simeon Molerov.
The Building centers them consta of beyond 300 cells, connected from scales, galleries and terraces.
The library of the monastero is many rich - 20 000 volumes between ancient agiografie, gospels, incunaboli.
In the museum antichi manuscripts, icone, gifts are conserved receipts from foreign convents, diplomas give and firmani of the sultani.

The Monastero di Drianovo

Colorful valley rises in one, to 39 km from ancient understood them the Bulgarian one, Veliko Tarnovo. E' be constructed in the Evo Mean. During the giogo Ottoman it has been destroyed two times. From a third restoration of the convent it is remained today the church of the Arcangelo Saint Michele.
The monastero is famous for the heroic battle that supported you a group of rebelled with head Kiro Kiss. teaching, and pope the Hariton, in you open it them of 1876. In the arc of nine days two hundred prodi, I locked in myself in the church of the Assumption, rejected the attacks of the preponderant enemy. They refused to surrender and they died under the fire of the Ottoman artillery that destroyed the church completely. In memory of the rebelled ones it has been raised a monument-ossario.

The Monastero di Backovo

It was founded in XI the century from i Georgian siblings Bakurian. E' situated in the Rodopi mounts, on the skillful river of the Cepelarska river, to 30 km from the city of Plovdiv. The conserved more ancient building till now is the ossario to two plans. The Association of Bologna is destined to the tumulazione, while the second is used after church with one navata. In the ossario the images of the Bakurian siblings and the Bulgarian king are guarded Ivan Alexander, protecting of the convent in century XIV.

On the place where it was, be erected from the founding siblings the first church of the monastero, in the XVII sec. it came constructed the conventuale church centers them of Saint Maria. In it a icona is guarded adorned of silver going back per year 1311.

The downstairs of the church of Know Archangels to you Michele and Gabriel and the church of Saint Nicholas is painted from the famous Bulgarian painter of XIX sec. the Zahari Zograph. It frescoes of Biblical subjects are excellent champions of the Bulgarian risorgimentale art. Of particular interest the universal judgment is the composition “”

In the Monastero di Backovo Bulgarian patriarch Evtimi was esiliato, after the fall of the understood one them, Veliko Tarnovo, under the blows of the Ottomans, in the XIV sec.
To the visitors the museum of the convent with collections of icone ancient is opened, crosses and works of oreficeria.
To 10 km from the convent erge a typical monument of the age of feudalesimo in Bulgaria - the Fortress of Assen, constructed in the XIII sec.

The Monastero di Troian

E' the third monastero in order of magnitude. E' situated on the left river of the river Cerni Ossam, to 10 km from the colorful montana city of Troian, to the feet of the steep ones pendii of the montuosa chain of Stara Planina (the Balkans), covered of secular forests.

The monastero is risen in century XVI. E' one of the more important works of the being worth constructors and Bulgarian painters. It frescoes of the main church, painted from Zahari Zograph in the first half of the slid century, have conserved their freschezza and their fascination. In the church the self-portrait of the painter is guarded arche.

Sin from the first years of its existence the monastero é be one of the centers of the movement of national liberation and the culture. Here it found shelter to you the great Bulgarian revolutionary, Vassil Levski, the apostle of the freedom. While the monaci they made part of the secret revolutionary committee. Before Liberation (1878) in the convent a lay school had center that attracted many young people.

• The exceptional ones raise interest fresco of episodes of the Bible and of it knows to you, let alone the museum. Beyond to the church furnishingses, it has an appropriate section that illustrates the svoltesi revolutionary fights in the district that they saw the participation also of the friars. E' conserved and opened to the visitors the hiding place of Vassil Levski.

The Monastero of the Trasfigurazione

Tranquillities, Hush and something of romantico wrap the visitor sin from its first steps in the chiostro.
The church centers them, contornata of bowers, has been constructed from the famous Bulgarian architect-self-taught of the slid century, Kolio Ficeto, that it has executed also the carvings of the iconostasi. The greater part of the icone is work of painter Zahari Zograph. On the external wall of the church it has painted the famous “Circle of the life”. In that convent he has left a indelebile track also an other great Bulgarian painter, Stanislav Dospevski, that he has painted some icone of the church of the Annunciation.
The monastero Trasfigurazione delta tos be distant 6 km from the ancient one understood them of Bulgaria - the city of Veliko Tarnovo.

The Monastero di Rozhen

E' one of the more interesting monasteri of Bulgaria, situated in its south-western part, to 7 km from the city of Melnik. The convent rose in the XIV sec., while the church was constructed in 1600. It was destroyed and reconstructed, therefore painted in the XVII sec.
Of particular artistic value they are frescoes it and the icone, let alone with architectonic of the monastero. E' conserved in good state the iconostasi of carved wood, going back to the beginnings of the XIV sec. the excellent invoice of the complex carvings is work of an artist of the school of carving of Debar.
The Monastero di Rozhen has been always a cultural center. Its architecture, its frescoes and carvings s'annoverano between the best creations of the Bulgarian national genius.

Tempio-Monument of the Shipka

On the height that surpasses the Shipka village ergono the cupolas golden of the tempio-monument constructed in memory of support Russians who sacrificed the life for the liberation of Bulgaria from the giogo Ottoman, protrattosi for five centuries. The tempio, work of famous Russian architects, is in the style of the Russian churches of the XVII sec. I external walls is adorns you of ceramics floor tiles. The cupolas, the crosses and the frames are gilded. The bells have been fused from the bossoli of the shot bullets.

Inside the tempio it is decorated of magnificent frescoes, painted from famous Russian and Bulgarian painters.

The tempio-monument is found to 12 km to north from the city of Kazanlak, that it is to the center of Goes them of the roses. It can be spendt the night also in the hotel on the summit of Shipka.
• Monastero di Gorni Voden “Sveti Kirik the Yulita”

The Monastero of “Sveti Kirik the Yulita”, still called “Gornovodenski manastir” é one of the larger convents in Bulgaria. It is found to 23 km to south from Plovdiv, to 3 km to the west from Assenovgrad. E' situated in the Rodopi mounts, over the village of Gorni Voden. 

The first monastero in that place was constructed in the Middle Ages, but in the second half of XVIII the century, in the age of the forced islamizzazione of the population in the Rodopi mounts, it had and destroyed with to the others 33 orthodox convents of the area of Stanimaka (today Assenovgrad) and Chepino. The construction puts into effect them laughed them to the first half of XIX the century; in 1838 the church of Sveta Paraskeva in the inner courtyard of the convent was constructed, in it conserves six of most famous icone of the artist Zahari Zograf di Samokov. It frescoes in church (1847-1850) are work of famous Bulgarian painter Alexi Atanassov; much precious one is the iconostasi of wood executed from an artist ignoto.

The monastero is not more working: in 1981 it has been restored completely and hour it is a colorful hotel complex of three stars, with a restaurant, a bar and a nocturnal premises.