Bulgaria
7 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre: every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Royal Palace (Sofia), 1 km east of the city centre; the most famous is Vrana Palace (#903 of 9,035 worldwide) 11 km south-east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Hisarlaka Fortress, founded c. 400.
The 100 km circle reaches into 2 countries: Bulgaria (6), Serbia (1).
11 km south-east · Palace & château
Vrana Palace is a royal palace, on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
1 km east · Palace & château
The Royal Palace, in fact called Prince's Palace and later Tsar's Palace, is an architectural landmark of national historical and cultural…
18 km south-east · Ruin
Urvich is a medieval fortress in the territory of today's quarter Pancharevo, heir to the village of Glavishevo.
53 km north-east · Ruin
Bozhenishki Urvich is a ruined fortress on the northern slopes of Lakavishki ridge in the western Balkan Mountains/ Stara Planina, 3 km south of…
79 km north-west · Fortress
Pirot Fortress is situated in Pirot, Serbia. It was supposed to serve as a defense along the ancient Roman road called Via Militaris which connected…
95 km south-east · Ruin
Tsepina or Tzepaina was a castle and town in the western Rhodope mountains, southern Bulgaria, now in ruins.
70 km south-west · Fortress
Hisarlaka Fortress is an ancient and medieval fortress occupying a hill at 2 kilometres to the south-east of Kyustendil, in what is now Bulgaria.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q472.
The Castle Map atlas maps 7 landmarks (2 fortresses · 2 palaces & châteaux · 3 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Sofia, measured straight-line: a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Royal Palace (Sofia), a palace 1 km east of the city centre.
Vrana Palace, ranked #903 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking: 11 km south-east from Sofia.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Hisarlaka Fortress, founded c. 400: 70 km south-west. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Skopje (174 km) · Prizren (218 km) · Thessaloniki (231 km) · Kragujevac (243 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
