The Bachkovo Monastery erected in a magnificent locality along the reaches of the Assenitsa River (29 km south of Plovdiv), ranks second after Rila Monastery both with regard to size, and to architectural, artistic and literary significance.

 The monastery biography is inevitably reflected in the architectural face of the ossuary. Its general idea is foreign to old Bulgarian art, and is clearly influenced by Spain and Armenian -
Georgian building.

 Spared during the first wave of enslavement. Bachkovo Monastery became the prison of the last Bulgarian Patriarch Euthymius, who was exiled here, where he continued his great literary work.

 The wave of Mohammedanization destroyed the monastery, but by the end of 16th century it was fully restored.

 The murals, old icons from different periods, the manuscripts, and incunabula with artistic facings, as well as the many objects linked with church crafts, turned Bachkovo Monastery into one of the richest galleries of old Bulgarian Art.