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Format: 22x30 cm, 110 pages, Hard cover
Color images: 80
Language: English, Bulgarian, Russian, German

As belonging to the Christian Orthodox cultural family of counties, Bulgaria has its invaluable treasure - the Monasteries, the source of spiritual culture through numerous centuries of Bulgarian history. In the marked by dramatic vicissitudes of fortune historical fate of the Bulgarian people, the monasteries are not just centers of pious monks and nuns; without changing their particular nature, they have always been also leading centers for education, litterature, arts, Bulgarian ethno-cultural identity; and this not only in times of prosperity and glory, but also in the dark ages of alien invasion, downfall and foreign domination.

Contents

Rila monastery “Assumption of Our Lady”
Trojan monastery “Holy Virgin”
Bachkovo monastery “Assumption of Our Lady”
Rozhenski monastery “Birth of the Virgin Mary”
Glozhene monastery “St. George”
Plakovski monastery “St. Prophet Elia”
Kapinovo monastery “St. Nicholas the Wonder-maker”
Monastery “Holy Trinity”
Sopotski monastery
“St. Spas” and the convent “Presentation of the Blessed Virgin”
Ivanovo cliff monastery
Basarbovski monastery
Aladja monastery
Cliff monasteries
“Transfiguration” monastery
Kilifarevo monastery “Birth of the Holy Virgin”
Shipchenski monastery “St. Nicholas”
Drianovski monastery “St. Archangel Michael”
Sokolski monastery “Assumption of the Virgin Mary”
Arbanassi monastery “St. Nicholas”
Arbanassi monastery “Assumption of Our Lady”
Dragalevski monastery “Assumption of the Virgin Mary”
Kremikovski monastery “St. George”