Fodor's Expert Review St. Nicholas Monastery

A pleasant place to stroll through well-tended gardens and soak up the history, St. Nicholas Monastery has seen its fair share of turmoil: it was pillaged and burned down once in the 14th century and twice in the 18th century, and shortly thereafter had to shut down because of the plague. It was restored in the 1830s, and this is the structure you see today. The monastery has played host to two of Bulgaria's former rules, Tsar Ferdinand and his son Tsar Boris III, and you, too, can sleep where royalty once did; St. Nicholas Monastery has a few simple rooms that can be rented.