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Bachkovo Monastery
Bulgaria's second-largest monastery, founded in 1083, with frescoed churches in a wooded valley of the Rhodopes.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Free; paid for the museum
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Bachkovo, 4237 AsenovgradDirections
- Getting There
- About 30 minutes south by car, or a bus via Asenovgrad.
Why Go
Two Georgian brothers in Byzantine service founded the monastery, and its ossuary church keeps 11th-century frescoes. The courtyard church has paintings by Zahari Zograf, the great 19th-century icon painter.
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