Bulgarian Cultural and Historic Places from OpenStreetMap

An OpenStreetMap export of cultural and historic places in Bulgaria, last updated 2026-05-14. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys. It was compiled by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and is useful for heritage protection and cultural mapping.

Use Cases

• Map cultural resource density for tourism planning based on the listed place types.
• Analyze the distribution of historic sites for heritage protection efforts based on the OSM heritage tags.
• Create a cultural context layer for regional studies based on the geospatial features of museums, galleries, and theatres.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via tags for tourism, amenity, historic, and heritage.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:02:50.947457; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bulgaria