A long trip around Bulgaria

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Around the beautiful country drive to the airport booked. 2100 km from the capital, the beautiful mountains, the spa towns, historic cities and the beautiful Black Sea coast before stopping again Koprivishtitsa, a small jewel to 100 km from the capital. Bulgaria country sweet and very economical arrived at the airport in Sofia had a nice thirty Bulgarian, Jack has lived in London and that gave me the car, a blue Renault Clio for € 320 for 17 days, including insurance CDW with the Agency Sikongroup.com.Stasera after finding out the hippy My cute little hotel I went to the discovery of Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. For the moment, judging by 8.Molto green, relaxing, full of style boulevard lined Corso Sempione in Milan. I saw the old town beautifully lit at night with the classical facades of several important buildings and the beautiful cathedral Alexander Nevski, which is the masterpiece around cittadino.Ci are very beautiful girls and sexy.Ci are many casinos and gambling houses too small. I kept the 'car stopped in a parking because the center is off limits from 8.30 to 18.30.Il center is small and can easily be seen on foot, even if at this time are rather cmq tired because I walked a lot. I am in Plovdiv, the second is a warm and cittàbulgara pazzesco.Pare that piùcaldo summer day here in just a cittàche ESOL forno.E be 'the ancient Plovdiv, founded by Philip II of Macedon, piùantica city of Rome. But only a few decades ago have come to light the great Roman theater, the stadium and the Roman Forum which are among the main attractions. There are three hills surrounding the historic citadel and piùvasta with the Roman theater, ancient churches, museums, historic buildings and houses from the original architecture strange that for some time are restored, providing a show only.We 'anda large city park where people going to get some fresh air and several pedestrian streets where people are shopping, drinking soft drinks in bars and outdoor passeggiano.Nei days before I was walking in the mountains for three days in 4 different località.Prima the famous Rila Monastery in the middle Mountains omonimi.E 'absolute piùbel the monastery saw me in spite of the many visited ROMANIA.Il Esplendido context, in the woods and the mountains and then Euna citadel fortified with white three-storey building with balconies decorated with rich gardens. Out in the real church with rich frescoes inside and out. Then I moved to the National Park Pirin Mountains which are about 3,000 meters, in which citizen Bansko èpraticamente the local Cortina, at the foot of the Pirin Mountains, the old city with low houses made of white stone and exposed wood beams. Full of shops, boutiques and mexane, cioèle local taverns where you can eat grilled meat and salads Bulgarian, listening to folk music. Top with the modern 5-storey big hotels, Tyrolean style and many buildings under construction to the delight of investors because it is able to buy apartments at 350 € per meter quadro.Ho climbed in the car for 15 km the curves leading to the refuge Vihren to 2,000 meters and then walk to the summit I climbed the mountain of the same name that comes to just under 3,000 meters. The summer difficoltànon the difference of 1,000 meters but the fact that I have walked the route with the sandals, because I could not get hold of boots. I was convinced not to do it and massacre the feet instead Eandi bene.Nel all afternoon I went to relax at a spa pool in Dobrinishte village 6 km from Bansko.Ho spent a great afternoon, doing a lot of friendships, first with a couple of local men in their thirties and then close the umbrella with two matte thong. The next day I went to Velingrad, the spa capital of Bulgaria. A beautiful city with many hills, pine forests and all types of hotels with pools. This time I took a huge private room in a house in the center, just steps from the river and the large public spa pool where I spent the whole day in the sun (shade) and swimming in the Olympic pool of mineral water and passing every so often in the very hot 30 degrees in fianco.Stamattina I started early at 7 am from Plovdiv and Veliko Tarnovo I headed towards where I arrived at 10 after three hours of excellent road, mostly highway practically deserted and dull. After Nova Zagora is the path and the landscape becomes much more interesting with green hills, a major river that widens considerably and form huge lakes along whose shores green there are a lot of fishermen and even people camped in tents. I'm in a nice hostel in Veliko Tarnovo as glimpsed it seems that the promise to be the most beautiful cittàbulgara among hills and walls antiche.Eh you! Veliko Tarnovo èproprio the Piubello cittàbulgara.Ci are hills everywhere, two roads that run through a ring, one with old houses at the bottom and the other on the street shopping at the top with many shops, boutiques, restaurants. The No. 1 attraction Ela Taravets fortress walls with long, about 3 km, the church at the top and various towers, trails and ruins of buildings antichi.Fra the 1200 and 1400 was the capital and main historical, cultural and religious then it became the capital 800 even when the country expelled the Turks after the age-old occupation and before the evening Sofia became the new capitale.La There is a public spectacle of lights and sounds awesome with colored lights, laser beams throughout the long face of the hill. Then two beautiful chiese.Ho the 5 km walking path leading to the monastery village of Arbanassi, rich with houses fortress and gardens, many turned into hotels and many rich people live ristoranti.Qui Bulgarians in their beautiful houses, thanks to its cool climate and spettacolaritàdel landscape and the landscape, since the town sits on a plateau overlooking the nearby Veliko Tarnovo.Ora are 4 days on the Black Sea coast, a sea water as its beautiful beaches, colors, but they have built a lot of climate as in Rimini, indeed in some places seems to Las Vegas! I stop in places piùumani and normal, skipping the other places luck terribilmenti turisticizzati.Per remained still some nice places like the dome I'm now in the south: it is called Primorsko and Euna nice little town with only a few big hotels and the rest small hotels and much peace as well as the beautiful long beach and green hills all intorno.Ho also visited Varna, one of the great port city Piubello and Bulgarian. It has many beaches, parks and pedestrian streets. Varna also has a beautiful cathedral and especially the most prestigious archaeological museum in the country that I'm lost. There are vestiges of the civilization of the Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines who succeeded in the country before the arrival of the Bulgarians provienti the coasts of the Caspian Sea and arrived at home around the sixth century DCPoi two jewels: Nessebar practically a little Venice, the ancient Apollonia in a peninsula that is accessed via a short istmo.Nel its limited space for a length of 1 km and a width of 300 meters meet typical houses with stone foundation and first floor wood . There are squares and features many ruins of ancient churches and then stores and restaurants everywhere. Similar to Nessebar and Sozopol not far: even consists of three peninsulas lined up as the Halkidiki in Greece, the first elastic part ancient and very special, quite similar to Nessebar, while others are more recent and less settlement.