Pictures of Sliven and Region
Following are pictures of the town and way of life...
Sliven Downtown
There is a main pedestrian shopping street, with side streets shooting off, more and more shops and eateries are appearing almost weekly. The center of town also has quaint and pleasant residential streets, just begging for a bit of TLC from DIYers. The photos will speak for themselves.
Sliven - The Market
The market, open every day of the week, Saturday is the busiest day. Full of local produce and outrageously low prices!
Sliven - The Park
This park so serves the public of the town, it's hard to fault it. Mothers, children, old folk, and in the evening it is THE place to go for anyone between 20 and 55, for dining, clubbing or just walking. AND its very safe, no yucky incidents, drunken brawls or obnoxious behaviour to be found.
Sliven - Beautiful Bulgaria Poject
In Sliven there is a project to improve all the old and traditional buildings as well as municipal buildings in order to improve the image and aesthetics of the town - over the past two years the town has gotten prettier and prettier as a result - have a look!
Chistmas in Sliven
Christmas is not a traditional Celebration for Bulgaria, but Bulgarians are always up for a celebration and taking on something that is fun, includes music and decoration - as a result, the town looks more and more festive each year!
Sliven - Villa zone
The villa zone is at the edge of town going up the foot hills and at the base of the foothills. In the old days, Slivenites would have their summer cottages there. Now many people are living there permantly as everyone has become more mobile (cars and better transport), and wealthy Bulgarians are building immense villas and luxury homes there. Not surprising, the air is great and the views stunning!
Sliven - Mineral Baths
These mineral baths are situated in beautiful park grounds. These baths were extremely busy in the days of communism as people from everywhere came to make use of them. The park itself is lovely, the buildings need internal modernisation. The baths are GREAT, temperatures between 42 and 50 degrees C, and are known to cure Diseases of the locomotory system, the nervous system, the liver and gall bladder, the digestive system and metabolism disorders as well as Urological diseases, Blood diseases and Gynecological diseases. There's an olympic pool, and on top of that a vineyard and golf course nearby!
Sliven - The Chair lift
The Sliven chairlift is one of those really pleasant holiday experiences that us locals love to enjoy year 'round. A tranquil lift up and a serene float down, really a stress vaporizer!!!!
Sliven - Karandila
Karandilla (the mountain region in Sliven) has one of the largest nature reserves in Europe with many rare and protected species of plant and animal life. Aside from that, it's just plain beautiful!
Daulite - Ski slope
Small but beautiful and room for expansion. The locals love to come here for their skiing and snowboarding, there's an ideal opportunity for a small group of investors to take advantage of this facility and develop it. All the locals from miles around will thank you and spend their dosh there!
Sliven - Rally
FIA European Rally Championship Regional Cup East
Sliven - Children Dance Folk Festival
Tradition, creation and children – more than 700 children from 12 European and Asian countries participate in the festival - it is a fantastic spectacle of colour , music and good cheer!
Sliven - Golf course
The Sliven Golf Course was built tor less than ten months and was officially opened by the Mayor of the city Mr. Yordan Lechkov on May 24th, 2004. It is the largest Bulgarian golf course with total length of 6010 meters and par 71. and boasts spectacular views to the Balkan mountain.
Jeravna
Jeravna is a little "Hansel and Gretel" type Bulgarian village with ancient Bulgarian architecture, and is a cultural monument, and a visit there is wonderful way to rekindle memories of fairy tales.
Sliven - Region
The Sliven region - well, mountains, hills, plains, valley of the peaches, ski slope, etc, etc. and wonderful people - enjoy the photos!
