Page update: 01 January 2000

Malko Turnovo

Malko Turnovo is former copper-mining town lying in a bowl surrounded by hills in Strandzha Mountain near the Turkey border. All roads in the Strandzha lead to Malko Turnovo. It's a down-at-heel place where tourism was never encouraged in the past due to the proximity of the border with Turkey.

Malko Tarnovo is overrun with Bulgarian, Romanian and Ukrainian tourists on the way to Istanbul.

A small collection of National Revival buildings huddles above the main square, four of which together serve as a town museum, including ethnographic and icon collections.