Sights in District Rousse

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...

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 to ...

The Nunnery "Reverend Petka Bulgarska" is situated near the homonymous village of Koprivets (municipality of Byala, Ruse district). It is one of the newest Bulgarian monasteries, but it is suggests that during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom at the same place there was existed other...

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, w...

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...

Every year, during the second half of March, the town of Ruse hosts the International Festival "March Music Days" . The festival was founded in 1961 and is one of the oldest international music forums in Bulgaria.The Festival attracts many Bulgarian and foreign musicians from different parts of the...

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...

The "Bridge of Friendship" (also called "Danube Bridge") is a bridge over the Danube river between Bulgaria and Romania. It connects the cities of Rousse (on the Bulgarian side) and Giurgiu (from Romanian). Currently (2011) this is the only bridge between the two countries on...

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 ...

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 ...