Melnik is the smallest and most charming city of south-western Bulgaria. It is located 186 km from Sofia, 23 km from Sandanski, at the foot of the Pirin Mountains, in the valley of the Melnishkata and Rozhenskata rivers. Melnik sheltered among unique sand pyramids, ancient architectural buildings, wine cellars and amazing nature, which is not comparable to any edge of the entire Balkan Peninsula.
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Bansko, Borovets, Pamporovo
Flights: Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas
Italy - 07.03, 14.03, 21.03
How to get to Melnik
By bus from the cities of Sofia, Sandanski, Petrich, Blagoevgrad, Damyanitsa.
By train from Sofia (direction Sofia-Athens) to Damyanitsya station (12 km from Melnik).
Search flights to Sofia (nearest airport Melnik)
Hotels
A small number of hotels will pleasantly surprise you with their cordiality and comfort, and the small size of the resort allows you to get to any point in Melnik in a matter of minutes.
Book popular Melnik hotels at the best prices
| Hotel Bolyarka from 1 241 rubles Melnik Melnik street 34 (next to the old turkish bath) | Hotel Melnik from 1 448 rubles Melnik 2 Vardar Str. | Guest House Chinarite from 1,723 rubles Melnik 19 Melnik Str. |
| Despot Slav Hotel & Restaurant from 1 655 rubles Melnik Melnik Str 58-59 | Chavkova house from 1 792 rubles Melnik Melnik 112 Str | Mario Hotel & Complex from 896 rubles Melnik 120 Melnik |
Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Melnik
Melnik is considered a historical reserve, a city-museum in the open air: its houses are impressed with its rich architecture, and the surrounding Melnik unique pyramids-rocks of sand and limestone impress the imagination with bizarre shapes and outlines .The most famous secular buildings of the city: Boyarsky (Byzantine) house - the oldest residential building in Bulgaria; Pashov House, which houses the local historical museum and the house of Kordopulov - a famous wine merchant .Here is the exhibition of the wine tunnel, where you can taste local wines .
There are about 100 cultural monuments in the city: churches, monasteries, ancient houses .Of the surviving buildings deserve attention monastery Sv .Nicholas (12th century), the Slav fortress (13th century), the church of the Apostles Peter and Paul, the church of Sv .Nikolai the Wonderworker, the Roman bridge, as well as the old Turkish bath .But, perhaps, the most vivid sight of Melnik is the local wine .More than three centuries ago the city became famous thanks to its drink from wine vines and tobacco .They say that the wine was so thick that it was worn in headscarves! Until now, Merlot, Kabernet Sauvignon and Melnik, manufactured using a special technology, are exported to many countries of the world..
Rozhen Monastery
At 5 km from Melnik, there is the Rozhen Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, the road to which passes through unique sand pyramids (on foot from Melnik about 1, 5 hours). Almost thousand-year history of buildings has undergone many changes: fires, warriors, reconstruction.
The openwork carving decorating the altar of the monastery is beautiful in its execution, was performed by the masters long before the beginning of the Renaissance. The Rozhen monastery has an interesting hexagonal shape, and the interior decoration (icons, altar, ancient paintings) is a unique monument of fine art in Bulgaria.
Not far from the monastery is the church of St. Cyril and Methodius, built on the initiative of Jana Sandanski, a Bulgarian revolutionary. Here he spent the last years of his life and was buried near the temple. Photo of Melnik (7)