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Holiday Ideas in Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s natural landscape is full of surprises - it has endless, sandy beaches along the Black Sea, wild mountain ranges and lush green hills, fertile plains, magnificent gorges, rivers, health spas and natural springs… It is famous for long balmy Summers, dreamy scented rose fields, richly coloured orchards and sundrenched vine-yards …
It is also renowned as a Winter Wonderland - with snow-laden mountains and pine forests stretching out as far as the eye can see, glistening like diamonds against an ever-blue sky.
Nestling at the heart of Central Europe, Bulgaria is a land of unspoilt natural beauty, where time has been known to stand still. It is a country of great contrasts.
Bulgaria is an interesting and intriguing experience for anyone: for those who love the warm southern sea or snow-covered slopes, for those who want to see it’s cultural and historic monuments, who wish to delight in its unique and living folklore, for young people fond of sports, for families with children, for the aged and people who need treatment, for those who dream of carefree holidays.
A country open to the world where the roads of big tourism cross.

Spa in Bulgaria
Bulgaria is an extremely attractive center for treatment, prophylactics, recreation and tourism with its numerous resorts, favourable climate, a 378 km long coastal strip with wonderful beaches, over 500 mineral springs of varying physico-chemical composition, temperature and indisputable curative properties, dozens of lagoon firth mud sources and curative peat deposits.
All scientific studies agree that in the uniqueness, variety and abundance of hydrothermal, bioclimatic, mud treatment, sea cure, and other health resources, Bulgaria ranks among the first in Europe, Climato-balneological treatment traditions in the Bulgarian lands date back to times immemorial.
In Thracian times, flourishing settlements sprang up around the hot mineral springs and many nymphaeums were built. In Roman times, spa centers were established, such as Augusta (present-day Hissarya), Dezudava (Sandanski), Pautalia (Kyustendil) and Serdica (Sofia), where even the Roman emperors Ulpius Trajanus, Septimius Severus, Maximilianus and Justinianus sought treatment for their ailments.
The BULGAIAN MINERAL WATERS are known for their greatly varied chemical composition and, respectively, their mineralization and type of dissolved mineral salts, curative gases and biologically active microcomponents. In fact, every kind of known mineral water may be found in the country. The FIRTH MUD SOURCES, along the Black Sea coast, the CURATIVE PEAT, SPRING CURATIVE MUD and BENTONITE CLAYS possess a particularly great potential in the treatment of many different diseases. Bulgaria occupies one of the first places in the world with the exceptional diversity of MEDICINAL HERBS and the excellent curative properties of its APIAN PRODUCTS.
The best known the inland spa resorts are: Sandanski, Velingrad, Hissaria, Kyustendil.
This enormous wealth of natural factors, combined with country’s modern hotels and spa facilities, provide excellent possibilities for the year-round effective treatment of the most widespread diseases of our times and truly make Bulgaria a COUNTRY OF HEALTH.

Hobby Tourism in Bulgaria
Bulgaria is a country which offers interesting possibilities for enthusiasts of the “special interest holidays” formula.
Combining your holiday with your favourite hobby could turn into the unforgettable experience of a lifetime.
Bulgaria offers all the necessary conditions for an untraditional rural vacation:

- old Bulgarian capitals
- monasteries and museums towns
- thracian treasures and icon-painting
- dozens of picturesque large and small settlements
- fine old homes with an unspoilt rural environment and traditional lifestyle
- adjoining yards with domestic animals and gardens
- ecologically clean regions and pastoral landscape
- well-organized welcome and services for guests with typical Bulgarian hospitality
- traditional cuisine
- and above all - a unique blend of natural scenery with history, folklore, national arts and crafts, colourful festivals and customs.