Boyana Church

The beautiful Boyana Church is one of the most important attractions in the area around Sofia. It is located about 10 kilometers outside the city center in the Boyana district of the same name, beneath the Witosha Mountain, and can be reached either by taxi or by bus. This medieval church has been on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1979. Boyana Church was built in three stages from the 1000s to the 1800s, but the most important additions were made during the Second Bulgarian Empire in the 1200s.

Boyana Church consists of three buildings. This site is one of the most complete and perfectly preserved monuments of east European medieval art. The paintings, by an unknown artist, include contemporary portraits of two Bulgarian rulers, Tsar Konstantin Assen and Tsar Koloyan, next to their wives. This is when the fabulous interior frescoes were painted, depicting some 240 historical and biblical figures in a realistic style 200 years before renaissance artists were doing the same in Boyana Church.

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Website: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/42/
Tel: 359 2 959 0939
Hour: 9:30 AM - 19:00 PM
Google Rating: 4.5/5