| 1st day: Meet & Greet at the airport by English speaking guide. Accommodation in the chosen hotel. Sofia Sightseeing tour with lunch /includes St. Sofia and St. George Rotunda, The Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevski, The beautiful building of The University, the National Art Gallery, the National Theater, Boyana church - part of UNESCO`s World Heritage and the National Museum of History . Dinner in Bulgarian Folk style restaurant at the foot of Vitosha Mountain with program. Overnight in hotel in Sofia.
2nd day:Melnik`s houses are spacious, whit wide eaves and towers, high stained glass windows, carved ceilings and large cellars here the famous Melnik wine matures. A single street leads to the finest example of the forms splendor of this small southern town. The Kordopoulos House - with Venetian stained glass windows, spacious rooms and salons, ornamental murals, weaves and fretwork, a wrought iron gate and large wine-cellar from which caravans with the famous Melnik wine once left for Salonika, Athens, Vienna, Rome, and even Marseilles and Spain
Visit Rojen monastery Situated far to the south in the Pirin area, 6 km from Melnik, this is the only monastery restored during the first centuries of Ottoman rule which has survived to this day. Valuable monuments of 17th century painting included the external southern wall (Doomsday, Jacob`s Ladder), dated with an inscription from 1611, as well as scenes from the life of John the Baptist painted in 1622 in the ossuary. The abundance of figures of monks and hermits unknown anywhere else, many of them, probably historic personages, contemporaries of the unknown painter, is also typical. Dinner and overnight in hotel in Sofia
3rd day: Breakfast. Transfer to the airport. |