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Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Category: Archaeological site in Ivanovo
The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo are located on a high rocky banks 32m above Rusenski Lom river, near village of Ivanovo and 18 km south of town of Ruse. They are a network of monolithic churches, chapels, cells and monasteries hewn with different heights, out of solid rock and completely differen...

Cherven

Cherven Fortress
Category: Fortress in Cherven
The medieval town and fortress of Cherven is located in the region of Polomieto, north of village of Cherven. The fortress is situated and deeply incised and with sloped rock shores and many meanders of the river Cherni Lom, on a high rock hill, surrounded at its three sides by a river. The citad...

Rousse

Regional History Museum Ruse
Category: Museum in Rousse
The Rousse Regional Historical Museum is one of the 11 regional museums of Bulgaria. It was established in 1904 as a museum exposition to the Male High School "Knyaz Boris I" in Rousse.The museum occupies the building of the former Battenberg Palace, previously a local court, built 1879- 1...

URL: http://www.museumruse.com

Basarbovo

Rock Monastery St. Dimitar Basarabovski
Category: Monastery in Basarbovo
The rock monastery St. Dimitar Basarabovski is located 10 km south of city of Ruse, in the valley of Rusenski Lom river, near Basarbovo village. The name of the monastery was first mentioned back in 1431 in a Turkish tax record. The monastery was deserted in XVI century and restored again in 193...

URL: http://www.rockmon.diocese-ruse.org/

Ivanovo

Natural Park Rusenski Lom
Category: Reserve in Ivanovo
Natural Park Rusenski Lom is situated around 20km south of city of Ruse between villages of Bozhichen, Krasen, Shrtraklevo, Nisovo, Koshov and Ivanovo. The reserve covers an area of 3260 hectares in the valleys of the rivers Rusenski, Beli and Cherni Lom and their affluents in the Smesite district...

URL: http://lomea.org/

Rousse

Pantheon of National Revival Heroes
Category: Memorial in Rousse
The Pantheon of National Revival Heroes in city of Rousse is a national shrine-ossuary of 453 supporters of the Bulgarian national revival. It was built on the territory of the old Ruse cemetery and was opened on 28 February 1978 to mark the 100 anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoma...

Rousse

Sexaginta Prista Fortress
Category: Fortress in Rousse
Sexaginta Prista is an ancient Roman fortress located on hill near Danube river, on the territory of the nowadays town of Rousse (its north-western part). This Roman castle arose above the ruins of an ancient Thracian settlement. By excavations there were found Thracians finds dated back to II-nd -...

Novgrad

Fortrtess Neocastro
Category: Fortress in Novgrad
The remains of the fortress Neocastro (aka "Novgrad" or "Novograd") can be found 1 kilometer north - east from the village Novgrad (Tsenovo municipality), on the hill Kelebair, at the left bank of Yantra River, front of the bridge to village of Krivina.It was built on a high pl...

Mechka

Rock formations in Dekili Tash locality
Category: Rock-formation in Mechka
The locality of Stalpishte (old Turkish name Dekili tash) is located near Danube river, 2km. northwest of village of Mechka (Ruse district). The name of the region is related to the two towering stone pillars located there, which are dating from the Mesozoic era. They have unique forms of lion`s hea...

Rousse

National Museum of Transport
Category: Museum in Rousse
The National Museum of Transport is located in city of Ruse, near the bank of Danube river. The museum is hosted in the building of the first rail station in Bulgaria, which was built in 1866 and was declared a historical monument.Museum has 2 exhibitions - into the building and one open-air where ...

Rousse

Kyunt Capua gate of Ruschuk fortress
Category: Archaeological site in Rousse
Kyunt Capua is the only preserved gate of the fortress wall of the Ottoman fortress Rustchuk in Ruse. Under the terms of the Berlin Peace contract from 1878, all fortresses in the Principality of Bulgaria had been destroyed. From the Ruschushkata fortress is preserved only this gate and its iron-stu...

Krivina

Fortress Yatrus
Category: Fortress in Krivina
Yatrus fortress is located near the village of Krivina (municipality Tsenovo). It was built in IV century and was an important Roman military unit in the area of Lower Danube. There were discovered remains of a Roman and early-Byzantine town which was destroyed by the Avars in the beginning of the V...

Rousse

Holy Trinity Church
Category: Church in Rousse
The church Sveta Troitsa (Holy Trinity) is the oldest church in city of Russe. It was built in 1962 and is a digged in the ground pseudo-basilica with size of 15.60 x 31.20 m.The bell tower is 19 meters high and has 5 bells. It has a hexagonal shape and was built of hewn stones taken from the ru...

Rousse

Museum House of Kaliopa
Category: Museum in Rousse
The museum "Urban Life of Ruse in the end of XIX and beginning of XX century" is located in a building dating back to 1864 where the consulate of Prussia was housed. The building is more popular under the name "Kalliope House" as the legend said that the house was presented t...

Rousse

Fort Levent Tabia
Category: Fortress in Rousse
Levent Tabia Fortress is situated on the highest place of town of Ruse - Sara Bair hill. The fortress was built in the 20 years of XIX-th century by the Ottoman Empire as part of its defense system. The project of the citadel is work of the Prussian military engineer - officer Helmuth von Moltke, ...

Pepelina

Orlova Chuka Cave
Category: Cave in Pepelina
The cave Orloja Chuka (means Eagle rocky peak) is located on the left bank of Cherni Lom river, near the village of Pepelina, Rousse district. It is the second longest cave in Bulgaria (13,438 meters) and is a complex maze of of interweaving galleries, tunnels, abysses, big and small halls. The cave...

Ekzarh Yosif

Zoological spot
Category: ZOO in Ekzarh Yosif
In the center of the village of Ekzarh Yosif is situated a small ZOO with over 12 species of animals - a camel, ostriches, pony, hind, wild pigs, peacocks, pheasants, pigeons, small decorative hens, turtles and others. The zoo was open in 2007 by the idea of the mayor of the village - Ilia Dan...

Rousse

St Paul of the Cross Cathedral
Category: Cathedral in Rousse
The St Paul of the Cross Cathedral is located on street Episkop Bozilkov in city of Ruse. It is a Romainic-Catholic church dedicated to Saint Paul and built in 1892. The project is of the Italian architect - Valentino (designed also the Catholic Church in Varna). The temple is in Neo-Gothic style...

URL: http://www.catholic.bg/ruse

Novgrad

Ethnographic museum collection
Category: Museum in Novgrad
The village of Novgrad has Ethnographic museum collection which is housed in nine halls in the building of the old school. There are exhibited archaeological finds from BC, exhibits related to the great Bulgarian revolutionaries Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha, objects and tools related to the cr...

Ekzarh Yosif

Open-air military museum
Category: Museum in Ekzarh Yosif
In the center of the village of Ekzarh Yosif, next to the ZOO, is located an outdoor museum with exhibits from the armaments of the Bulgarian army: a fighter aircraft, 105 mm howitzer, gun from a cherry tree. The museum was opened on September 9, 2007 as extension of the Ethnographic museum collect...

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