Plovdiv the eternal city of Bulgaria

Plovdiv is Bulgaria’s second-largest town, the Thracian region centre and the European cultural capital in 2019.

Over the past decade, the city has become a nationally and internationally sustainable tourist destination with a variety of key tourism assets — arts, wine and gourmet. All of them have a growing, important and special, Plovdiv-style, cultural identity.

Plovdiv eternal city of Bulgaria is ranked by the media such as CNN, the New York Times, The Guardian, The daily telegraph, Lonely Planet and many others among major destinations around the world.

At the intersection from the west to the east, Plovdiv is a place of hand in hand history and modern history that flourishes in many forms, styles and colours in ancient and contemporary cultures and art.

The presence of various colours and religions from ancient times to the present day is proof of the different nature of the region.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s everlasting city, has retained for 8000 years in its territory material evidence of human existence.

The town has been given various names through the years, from Evmlopia, Philippolis, Trimontium, Pulpudeva, to the new name-Plovdiv.

The town has witnessed the growth of cultures and civilizations of different historical ages.

It is enough that Plovdiv eternal city of Bulgaria was founded before Rome, Athens or Constantinople to show how historic it really was in the past. Proof has been discovered that Troy and Mycenae are contemporary.

Plovdiv, the everlasting city of Bulgaria, is a wonder here to be rediscovered with its well preserved ancient buildings and magnificently decorated Renaissance homes, museums and galleries.

Originally published at https://traveltips.org on May 4, 2020.