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- 2004 KASTRITSI FORTRESS NEAR VARNA (Valentin Pletnyov, Petko Georgiev, Hristo Kuzov – h.kouzov@abv.bg, Igor Lazarenko, Asya Stefanova) The northern fortification wall is 200 m in length and 1.80 – 2 m in width. It has two faces and a bonding medium of broken st... Read More
- 2005 EXPLORATIONS OF KASTRITSI FORTRESS NEAR VARNA (Valentin Pletnyov, Petko Georgiev, Hristo Kuzov – h.kouzov@abv.bg, Asya Stefanova) Four rooms of the end of the 13th – 14th centuries were discovered to the southwest of the fortress gate. According to the coi... Read More
- 2006 EXPLORATIONS IN KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Hristo Kuzov – h.kouzov@abv.bg, Asya Stefanova) A buttressed wall covering a Late Antique building consisting of adjoining rooms arranged in a row was discovered close to the northwestern tower. A floo... Read More
- 2007 EXPLORATIONS IN KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Hristo Kuzov – h.kouzov@abv.bg, Asya Stefanova) To the south of the corner tower, the western fortification wall was explored. Adjacent buildings arranged in a line were discovered. The finds include p... Read More
- 2008 EXPLORATIONS IN KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Hristo Kuzov – h.kouzov@abv.bg, Asya Stefanova) Twenty-two meters from the western fortification wall were explored to the south of the corner tower. The wall was built with ashlars in opus emplectum. ... Read More
- 2009 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Hristo Kuzov – h.kouzov@abv.bg, Igor Lazarenko) Mediaeval buildings and a square were discovered in the western sector of Kastritsi. Five cobble streets lead to the square. There were buildings from both sides of the ... Read More
- 2010 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Maria Manolova-Voikova – mara_manolova@yahoo.de, Igor Lazarenko) Kastritsi was protected by a fortification wall, 200 m long, preserved up to 3 m in height, built of ashlars bonded with mortar and with repairs, with f... Read More
- 2011 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Igor Lazarenko – lazarenko@mail.bg) The explorations of the square, the streets and the buildings in Sector West continued. The streets were paved with slabs or trampled rubble and clay. There was an earthquake in the... Read More
- 2012 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Igor Lazarenko – lazarenko@mail.bg) The fortress occupied the St. Gianni Cape. It was recorded as Kastritsi on maps and portolans from the 14th century onwards. The explorations of streets, an area to the south of the... Read More
- 2013 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Maria Manolova-Voikova – mara_manolova@yahoo.de, Igor Lazarenko) Two buildings, each one consisting of two rooms and discovered in 2012, were completely excavated. Part of the northern street, which began from a small... Read More
- 2014 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Maria Manolova-Voikova – mara_manolova@yahoo.de, Igor Lazarenko) The northern part of street leading to the south towards the port and situated to the east of Church No. 1 was explored and its access towards the weste... Read More
- 2015 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Maria Manolova-Voikova – mara_manolova@yahoo.de, Igor Lazarenko) A sector situated between the northern street and the fortification wall at the main gate, was explored. Five parallel buildings arranged in a line alon... Read More
- 2016 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Maria Manolova-Voikova – mara_manolova@yahoo.de, Igor Lazarenko) The explorations continued in the central part of the fortress, to the west of the main street. A building was discovered, 28 m long and 14 m wide, cons... Read More
- 2017 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Maria Manolova-Voikova – mara_manolova@yahoo.de, Igor Lazarenko) The explorations were carried out in the central part of the fortress, to the west of the street that led from the central gate to the south. Houses wit... Read More
- 2018 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Igor Lazarenko – lazarenko@mail.bg, Maria Manolova-Voikova) The excavations continued in the central southern part of the fortress. Four houses of the 14th – first half of the 15th centuries were discovered, situated to the south of Chu... Read More
- 2019 KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Igor Lazarenko – lazarenko@mail.bg, Maria Manolova-Voikova) Six houses around Church No. 2 were excavated, situated in the central part of the fortress. House No. 3 dated to the 14th – first decades of the 15th centuries. An earlier mid... Read More

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