List of World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria
There are ten UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria. The first four properties were inscribed in the World Heritage List in 1979, and the last in 2017.
Bulgaria currently has sixteen additional properties on the Tentative List.
World Heritage Sites
UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, whereas vii through x are natural.| Site | Image | Location | Year listed | Description | |
| Boyana Church | Boyana quarter of Sofia | 1979 | A medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church | ||
| Madara Rider | East of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the village of Madara | 1979 | An early medieval large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau | ||
| Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo | Village of Ivanovo, south of Ruse on the Danube. | 1979 | Monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock | ||
| Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak | Near the town of Kazanlak, central Bulgaria | 1979 | Ancient tomb, part of a large Thracian necropolis | ||
| Ancient City of Nessebar | The old part of Nessebar, on the Black Sea, just north of Burgas | 1983 | Ancient part of town, situated on a peninsula. | ||
| Rila Monastery | Northwestern Rila Mountains, south of Sofia, in Rila Monastery Nature Park | 1983 | Medieval monastery, one of the region's most significant cultural, historical and architectural monuments | ||
| Pirin National Park | Pirin Mountains in the southwest of Bulgaria | 1983 | Natural reserve | ||
| Srebarna Nature Reserve | Just south of the Danube river, Southern Dobruja in northeast Bulgaria | 1983 | A nature reserve and lake on the Via Pontica bird migration route | ||
| Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari | Village of Sveshtari, near Razgrad in northeast Bulgaria | 1985 | A Thracian tomb dating back to 3rd century BC | ||
| Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe | 2017 |
Tentative List
- Central Balkan National Park – 1984
- Ancient Town of Nicopolis ad Istrum – 1984
- Bachkovo Monastery – 1984
- Late Ancient Tomb of Silistra – 1984
- Magura Cave with Drawings from the Bronze Age – 1984
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument – 1984
- Rocks of Belogradchik – 1984
- Rusenski Lom National Park – 1984
- The Town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery – 1984
- Vratsa Karst – 1984
- Two Neolithic Dwellings in Stara Zagora – 1984
- The Ancient Plovdiv – 2004
- Tomb of Aleksandrovo – 2004
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes in Bulgaria - 2016
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis - 2016
- Bishop's Basilica of Philippopolis – 2018