The Museums in Stara Zagora

The Neolithic Dwellings Museum

The Neolithic dwellings are one of the mandatory stops for tourists in Stara Zagora. The museum takes its visitors back in time more than eight thousand years. It tells stories and shows artifacts related to the daily life...

The Regional History Museum

The Regional History Museum in Stara Zagora tells the entire story of these mystical lands stretching over thousands of years. The Museum reveals to its visitors the traces of civilizations found in this ancient city...

The Museum of Religions

The Museum of Religions is unique in Bulgaria and perhaps in the world. In this location, situated in the center of modern-day Stara Zagora, different people have worshipped different gods throughout the centuries. The remains of a cult pit from the Early Iron Age (10th − 9th century B.C.)...

Museum House 'Geo Milev'

Geo Milev is one of the most important names in the history of Bulgarian literature. He was a poet, a critic, a translator, a painter, a rebel and a founder of an entirely new poetry movement. He is a vivid example of a man who has devoted his life to art and to the fight for freedom of the human spirit...

Antique Forum Augusta Traiana

The Antique Forum Augusta Traiana tells the story of the glorious Roman times and the magnificence of an entire epoch. The Forum was built no later than 3rd century A.D. and it filled the old city with the rattle of the gladiators'...

Hilendar Convent

Bulgarian education had its beginning during the Turkish yoke when the so-called 'cellar' schools started to develop. They were housed in churches or monasteries, and they occupied small rooms resembling cells...

Museum House '19th century urban everyday life'

The period between the Liberation and the end of WWII is one of the most interesting periods in the development of the Bulgarian nation-state. An entirely new model for the country was developed; ideas were brewing; wars, ...

A late Antiquity home with mosaics

A group of archeologists discovered a private home during excavations in the center of the city. The home did not appear to be exceptional at first sight. As the work progressed they discovered parts of an incredibly...

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