Castles in Bulgaria

Perperikon (), also Perpericum, is an ancient Thracian city located in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains, 15 km northeast of the present-day town of Kardzhali, Bulgaria on a 470 m high rocky hill, which is thought to have been a sacred place. The village of Gorna krepost ("Upper Fortress") is located at the foot of the hill and the gold-bearing Perpereshka River flows nearby. Perperikon is the largest megalith ensemble site in the Balkans. In the Middle Ages Perperikon served as a fortress.

medieval fortress in Bulgaria

medieval stronghold in northern Bulgaria

castle in Bulgaria

right|frame|Location of Kaliakra Kaliakra () is a cape in the Southern Dobruja region of the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, which ends with a long and narrow headland east of Kavarna, northeast of Varna and southwest of Mangalia. The coast is steep with vertical cliffs reaching down to the sea. Kaliakra is a nature reserve, where dolphins and cormorants can be observed. It sits on the Via Pontica, a major bird migration route from Africa into Eastern and Northern Europe. Many rare and migrant birds can be seen here in spring and autumn and, like much of this coastline, is home to several

historic mountain pass in Sofia Province, Bulgaria

medieval fortress in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains above Asenovgrad

archaeological site overlooking the city of Shumen in Bulgaria

fortress near Bozhenitsa village, Bulgaria

Tsepina () or Tzepaina () was a castle and town in the western Rhodope mountains, southern Bulgaria, now in ruins. It is from the Dorkovo village in the north-eastern part of the Chepino Valley. Tsepina is above sea level.

Markeli (; , Markellai; ) was a medieval Byzantine and Bulgarian frontier stronghold, the ruins of which are located in Karnobat Municipality, Burgas Province, southeastern Bulgaria. Dating to Late Antiquity, the castle lay some from the modern town of Karnobat. It was the site of two notable medieval battles between Byzantines and Bulgarians, the Battle of Marcellae of 756 and the Battle of Marcellae of 792.

Roman fort

archeological site in Bulgaria

medieval border guard fortress

castle in Bulgaria

Ustra () is a medieval fortress in the eastern Rhodope Mountains in southern Bulgaria. It is among the highest and best preserved fortifications in the mountain range. The fortress was controlled by the Byzantine and the Bulgarian Empires until the region was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the second half of the 14th century.

right|thumb|400px|Overview of the late Roman basilica and adjacent ruins of Storgosia thumb|150px|left

Lyutitsa () is one of the largest and best preserved castles in the easternmost part of the Eastern Rhodopes, located 3.5 hours' walk south-west of Ivaylovgrad, in southernmost Bulgaria. It is also known as the "Marble City" because its walls are made of white marble.

important medieval fortress of the Second Bulgarian Empire

Momina krepost (Maiden’s Fortress) () also called Devingrad() is a medieval stronghold located on a hill with the same name in Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria. This hill was one from the three main hills when Medieval Tarnovgrad was the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396 AD). thumb|left|250px|Hill Devingrad

late Antiquity and medieval fortress

medieval stronghold

Byalgrad (, "white fortress") is a medieval fortress located eight kilometres from the village Gugutka in Haskovo Province, southeastern Bulgaria.

medieval stronghold

thumb|Remains of "St. Elias" Fortified Church in the "Urvich" Medieval Fortress, near Sofia