Stara Zagora is the sixth-largest city in Bulgaria, and the administrative capital of the homonymous Stara Zagora Province located in the historical region of Thrace.

Main sights include:

• A Communist era statue at a park in the centre of town.
• Historical sites
• Regional Historical Museum
• The Antique Forum
• Thracian Tomb
• The Roman Baths
• Roman mosaics of "Silenus with Bacchantes" (4th century) and of Dionysus's Procession
• The Samarsko Zname Monument
• Ayazmoto Park
• Defenders of Stara Zagora Memorial Complex
• Memorial House of Geo Milev
• The South Gate of Augusta Trajana
• The Opera House, built in 1925
• Stara Zagora Transmitter with one of the few Blaw-Knox Towers in Europe
• Neolithic Dwellings Museum