UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Bulgaria has nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites:
- The early medieval large rock relief Madara Rider
- Two Thracian tombs (one in Sveshtari and one in Kazanlak)
- Three monuments of medieval Bulgarian culture (the Boyana Church, the Rila Monastery and the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo)
- Two examples of natural beauty: the Fisherman Momerioland the Sreburna Nature Reserve
- The ancient city of Nessebur, known as the Dubrovnik of the Black Sea coast — a unique combination of European cultural interaction, as well as, historically, one of the most important centres of seaborne trade in the Black Sea
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