THRACIAN & OTHER TREASURES

SOFIA, BULGARIA - JULY 2011

A visit to the National Museum of History and back to the Rila Monastery.

"THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY is Bulgaria's largest museum. It was founded on 5 May 1973 and was moved in 2000 to the former residence of Todor Jivkov at Boyana"

"THE THRACIAN TREASURES - By the time I visited, there was an exhibition of Thracian treasures from the Vassil Bojkov collection"

"THE VASSIL BOJKOV EXHIBITION - Consisting of more than 230 pieces dating from the 15th through the 1st centuries BC, it showed some unique works of the ancient Thracian toreutics for the first time. The Bojkov Collection is one of the important world collections of ancient jewelry"

"GOLD - The collection contains all the object forms characteristic for the Thracian art of the period 5th – 1st century BC."

"THRACIAN TOREUTICS - It is said that in the toreutics the Thracians develop symbols, thus allowing us to learn about their culture and art"

"THE TREASURE OF NAGYSZENTMIKLÓS consists of 23 early medieval gold items, in total weighing 9.945 kg, found in 1799 near the town of Sân Nicolau Mare (Nagyszentmiklós in Hungarian) in northern Banat, today in Timiş County in western Romania. After the excavation, the treasure was transferred to Vienna, where part of it has been on permanent display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum"

"OTHER TREASURES - Including the Silver Eagle from the Vossneszenska Treasure"

"ICONS"

"GOLDEN CROWN"

"BOYANA CHURCH"

"ON THE WAY TO RILA -

"THE RILA MONASTERY"

"FRESCOES"

"SAINT GEORGE"

"THE GREEN ARCADE"