Travel Guide Bulgaria

Everything in this guide is already on your phone. The map, 27,000 places, the photographs, the narration and the phrasebook all work in airplane mode — in a Rhodope valley, on a mountain ridge, or anywhere the roaming gave up. No account, no subscription, no ads, no tracking.

WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL

A vector map of the whole of Bulgaria is built into the app and drawn on your device: roads, rivers, villages, footpaths and everything standing around you. Nothing to download, no data used, no "offline pack" to buy.

27,000 PLACES, RANKED SO THE GOOD ONES COME FIRST
Monasteries, Thracian tombs, Roman theatres, fortresses, caves, waterfalls, glacial lakes, peaks, mountain huts, painted churches, beaches, viewpoints, museums and protected trees — from every UNESCO World Heritage site down to an ancient oak nobody photographs. Search reaches all 27,000. The recommendations only ever show you the ones worth your afternoon.

"I HAVE THREE HOURS. WHAT IS ACTUALLY WORTH IT?"

Set the time you really have — an hour, three hours, half a day, a full day — and whether you are walking, driving or on the bus. The app works out what you can reach, look at properly, and still get back from. It will not send you to a museum that closes before you could finish looking at it.

LISTEN INSTEAD OF READING

Narration for any place in twelve languages, spoken by your iPhone's own voices, and self-guided audio walks that start talking at each stop as you arrive. It keeps playing with the screen locked and the phone in your pocket, eyes on the thing you came to see.

PLAN A DAY, OR A WHOLE ROAD TRIP

Build a day that respects opening hours and driving time. Pick where you are starting and where you are going, and see what is worth stopping for in between — with the cost in minutes, so the detour is your decision. Save places, tick off what you have seen, keep several trips at once.

TWENTY-THREE COLLECTIONS

World Heritage. Monasteries. Thracian Bulgaria. Roman Bulgaria. Fortresses. Caves. Waterfalls. Mountain lakes. Peaks. Mountain huts. Painted churches. Beaches. Viewpoints. Wild Bulgaria. Ancient trees. Museums. Hidden Bulgaria. Ottoman heritage. Mineral baths. Wine. With children. Theatre and opera. On the water.

THE PRACTICAL THINGS NOBODY TELLS YOU

Ten short articles: money and the euro, driving and the road vignette, getting around without a car, emergencies and mountain rescue, the Black Sea, the mountains, manners, phones, and eating. Plus 52 Bulgarian phrases you can play out loud or hand to someone full-screen to read — including why a nod can mean no.

ON YOUR HOME SCREEN

Widgets for the nearest place worth seeing and for your next stop, a Live Activity while an audio walk is running, Siri ("what's worth seeing near me?") and Spotlight search that finds Bulgarian places straight from the home screen.

TWELVE LANGUAGES

English, Bulgarian, German, Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Greek, Italian, French and Spanish — the interface and the place descriptions both.

HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT KNOWS

Every place shows where its information came from and when it was last checked, with links to the open data behind it. When opening hours cannot be trusted, it says "unknown" instead of guessing, and one tap tells us what is wrong.

PRIVACY

No account. No analytics. No advertising. No third-party trackers. Your saved places, trips and position stay on the device. The only thing that ever leaves is a coordinate rounded to about a kilometer, to fetch the weather.

Travel Guide Bulgaria is an independent guide made by enthusiasts. It is not an official publication and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Ministry of Tourism, any municipality or any museum.

Place data from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap contributors. Photographs from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses, credited in the app. Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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