The City of Hisar

Hisar is an ancient as well as a modern city – ancient as its healing thermals and modern as their fresh streams.
According to the archeological researches, 5000 years BC there had been an ancient city located around the Hisar thermals. Later around the thermal Thracians set up, and in a few centuries Romans came to inhibite this region. In 293 the Roman Emperor Diocletian walled the city which was named after him – Diocletianopol. The archeological remnants and monuments of different cultures – Thracian, Roman and others are preserved up to now and represent one of the many attractions of the Hisar Resort.

The city is located at the central part of Bulgaria, at the South slopes of Stara planina (the Ancient mountain) at 360 metres altitude.

Hisar is connected to the national transport net while it is close to the Thrace Headway, as well as to the Balcan Headway. The city is 36 km away from Plovdiv and 160 km away from Sofia.

Famous with its thermals since the ancient times, the city offers many opportunities for leisure activities, recreation and entertainments.

Here you can find many attractive and beautiful places for recreation and balneology, for congress, eco and village tourism.

In Hisar you can enjoy balneology, congress tourism, eco tourism, village tourism and tourism for hunters.

Balneotourism – the healing effect of the Hisar mineral water is scientifically proven.
Everyone may fully recreate while taking advantage of the nature’s beauty in this region in an eco tourism manner.

Also in the small villages at the slope of Sredna gora, the tourists may get acquainted with customs and traditions of the local people, their crafts, folk dances and songs, and, of course, the delicious Bulgarian cuisine.

In addition, the Hisar municipality offers very good conditions for hunting and fishing. There are four hunting fields with diversity of game, and a dozen of dams. The hunting community provides the guests with equip and coaches. 

Undoubtedly, the most remarkable places in Hisar are the parks which invite the guests to enjoy the variety of different trees and flowers. All sanatoriums, hotels and villas have their own parks and gardens. Altogether in Hisar there are 1000 hectares green area with over 300 plant species, some of them under the special protection of the Red Book of Bulgaria. The sweet fragrance of flowers in the parks and the silence, broken only by the songs of the birds, are balm for the tired from the city noise people. 
The parks are part of the healing complex – thermals, pure air, silence and health food. 
The local wind, called “vechernik” (evening wind) cools the city in the hot summer nights, filled with nightingales’ songs. In the different seasons, the city is engulfed in the fragrance of limes, lilacs and roses.
Surrounded by parks and gardens, a city without industrial enterprises, Hisar is an ideal place for recreation.
In recent years, it has become famous as a Bulgarian tourist and thermals center.