Bulgaria (Nelles Pocket)

The hospitable Bulgaria has been published by the Russians deceptively familiar. Slavic country, former companion on the socialist, and even the Black Sea - "The same Crimea, only away. Even the language as a whole is understandable without translation (what relief for a foreign guest!) It would seem why then the guide? And you still do not guess how interesting missed, if you do not look more carefully for this similar and do not like our country.
And look after you, start wondering. It turns out that, among the ancestors and national heroes of the Slavs brothers, the Khan-nomad, who fought with Christian Vizantia, occupies an honorable place. In the future, the relationship with Khana and Sultans did not work out and amounted to just the most dramatic page in the history of the people. And contributed to this the same city with three names and three persons, Constantinople-Byzantia-Istanbul. We do not judge, which of these people is better. But Bulgarians preferred the second, and they managed what was not managed by Byzantines: to preserve their Orthodox culture and after almost 500-year-old (!) Muslim domination to return to it. Didn"t the recent collision been surprising when the expulsion king was the prime minister of his country by democratic elections?
Following our guidebook, you will meet the testimony of the stormy story of this edge at every step: Thracian tombs, well-hidden in the mountains of monasteries with multi-colored frescoes, churches next to mosques, and even the ancient basilica, which were rebuilt in the mosque, and Then back to the church. And in taverns and souvenir shops you will make sure that the Bulgarians fought someone else"s culture, they did not forget to borrow from her all the best: from meat dishes to carpet.
Of course, Bulgaria is interesting not only in history. Famous plantations of roses Valley, vineyards and their heating soul products, reserved nesting sites of birds and unique monuments of nature - all this you will find on the pages of the guide. They, however, are not forgotten and beaches, water parks and resorts with mineral waters for those who will go to Bulgaria just relax.
Guide contains 56 color photos, 4 detailed maps, 9 plans of cities and resorts. In special sections, information was collected about addresses and mode of operation of museums, about monasteries, churches and protected areas, about taverns and restaurants, about the best beaches. A separate essay is devoted to the Bulgarian cuisine