Sights in Region North-Central

Museum of Communism in village of Garvan was officially inaugurated at 2 May 2009. The exhibits there are donated by the local people, who were delivered objects used in those years, and were started to write down their memories of the socialist period.The exhibition contains:Gramophone with musical...

Badjaliata is a cave and a rock-sanctuary of Zalmoksis - the mythical king, priest and god of the Thracian tribe of Getty. It dates back to VI century B.C. The sanctuary is located near village of Strelkovo (Silistra region)....

This Relief Map of Bulgaria is located in the center of Dryanovo, in the park of Maksim Raykovich Secondary School. The map was made in 1962 by Bonka Tihova, a teacher in geography in the same school, and 3 of her students.It is 6.90 meters long and 4.30 meters wide, made by cement, in scale 1:100 ...

Village of Arbanassi has its own specific architectural style. In the past the houses were built spacious and comfortable but resemble minor fortresses on the outside with their high, solid walls and heavy gates, iron, rids and secret hiding-places. The earliest information about the existing of...

The ruins of the fortress of Rahovetz (aka Ryahovates) can be found 3 kilometers to the north-west of Gorna Oriahovitza town and 10 kilometers to the north of Veliko Tarnovo city, on 115 meters above sea level.In III and IV century of A.D. the Roman Emperor Aurelius III was building fortresses for...

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 d...

The Monastery St. Prophet Iliya (aka Gornoryahovski monastery) is located 2 km west of town of Gorna Oryahovitsa. For many centuries on, the monastery is keeping the Orthodox religion. Legends tell that in 1218 at this monastery died the Bulgarian tzar Boril. St. Prophet Iliya is considered as a ...

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...

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-...

There are 2 monasteries in the lands of the village of Batoshevo - the Male monastery "Uspenie Bogorodichno", located on the left bank of Rositsa river, high in Sevlievo mountain (4-5 km South-West of the village), and the Nunnery "Vavedenie Bogorodichno", situated in the...