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Bulgaria, a republic in southeastern Europe, is a country full of history and culture. The 16th largest country in the European empires had experienced during the two periods as well as the Ottoman Sultanate period.

Bordered by Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey, Bulgaria is famous for its mountains that surround it. One is the famous Rila mountains where there are peak Musala is the highest peak in the Balkans. Here are three popular tourist destinations in the country and pretty:

Arbanasi

Arbanasi, which in Albanian means working the soil, is a village full of historical value in Bulgaria. It is in the city of Veliko Tamovo, the ancient former capital of Bulgaria, and Goma Oryahovitsa, about 400 meters above sea level.

Like most historic sites, Arbanasi filled with many monuments and a number of church buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Architectural buildings there are very distinctive, which is walled with stone floors, sills, and the ceiling is made of wood. Looks solid and rigid on the outside but very comfortable inside. While the interior of churches decorated with wood carvings and murals. This is the main attraction Arbanasi.

Several historic buildings become landmarks Arbanasi are:

•  Church of the Nativity of Christ (about age 15-17)
•  Church of Saint Michael and Gabriel the Guardian Angels (age 16-18)
•  St. Athanasius Church (17th century)
•  Church of Saint George (17th century)
•  Church of Saint Demetrius (age 17-18)
•  Monastery of Saint Nicholas (age 17-18)
•  Used Arbanasi palace, formerly used as a holiday home Bulgarian president Todor

As the village is heavily influenced by Greek culture for centuries, Arbanasi population using Greek as their official language.

Rila Monastery

About 117 miles south of the Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, precisely in the river valley in the mountains Rila Rilska, stood the convent of Saint Ivan of Rila. The monastery was built in the 10th century monastery of the Eastern Orthodox is the most popular and biggest in Bulgaria.

Ivan of Rila is a monk who initiated the establishment of the monastery during the reign of Tsar Peter. He himself was living in a cave and have a number of pupils who then together build Rila monastery. The authorities in Bulgaria and then provide support in the form of donations, especially the rulers during the reign of the second Bulgarian Empire until the Ottoman reign. Rila monastery became the spiritual and cultural center of Bulgaria and reached its peak in the 12th century to 14.

Several times suffered damage from an attack that occurred during the 14th century Ottoman rule, as well as fires that occurred in the 18th century, the Rila monastery was forced to undergo a series of renovations. Currently, in addition to the main church, in the Rila monastery complex there is also a dormitory, library, chapel and museum. Rila Monastery in 1983 officially listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO and in 2002 received a visit from Pope John Paul II.

The National History Museum

National History Museum in Sofia is located is one of the largest and most comprehensive museum of history in the Balkan peninsula. Built in 1973 and opened in 1984, the museum holds at least 700,000 cultural monuments that depict the history of Bulgaria since 8000 years ago. However, only 10% of the collection is on display to the public.
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The National History Museum is divided into several showrooms, namely:

• Space Pre-History, which showcased ornaments, statues, tools of stone and bone, as well as pottery from the seventh millennium to millennium BC 2.
• Ancient Thracian space, which exhibits relics of the Thracian treasure like the treasure Panagursko, Rogozensko, Letnishko.
• Space Middle Ages - the First and Second Bulgarian Empire, which showcased jewelry, pottery, coins, relics, and other objects of the century Bulgarian imperial relics 7-11 and age 12-14.
• Bulgarian Land Space, which featured the story of the earth during the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria Dominion.
• Empire Space Bulgari Third, the display objects belonging to the imperial family in the 18th century to the present.

While the collection of stone pillars and monuments of ancient Greece, the Roman and Byzantine museums can be enjoyed in the garden. For visitors who want to buy a souvenir or literature, the museum also provide it.