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The Belogradchik Rocks
Category: Rock-formation in Belogradchik
The Belogradchik Rocks are marvelous rock-formations located south of city of Belogradchik. They were formed of varicoloured Triassic sandstones and conglomerates. These have fantastic outlines - up to 200 meters high silhouettes of people, towers, ships, mushrooms, obelisks, palaces, and animals. ...

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Vidin

Baba Vida Fortress
Category: Fortress in Vidin
Baba Vida fortress is one of the major attractions of the town of Vidin. It is one of the few entirely preserved medieval castle in Bulgaria. It is is situated on a big curve of the river Danube in the northeast part of the town. Its construction was started in X century at the place of an Ancient ...

Archar

Roman fortress Ratsaria
Category: Fortress in Archar
Ratsiaria was a large and important city on the Danube. His remains are located in area of Kaleto, 1 km north-east of the present village Archar (about 27 km. southeast of Vidin). The city was founded during the Roman Empire, but there was a Thracian settlement on this lands in IV-th c BC. In Roma...

Belogradchik

Belogradchik fortress
Category: Fortress in Belogradchik
Belogradchik fortress (aka Kaleto) is located south-west of town of Belogradchik, near famous Belogradchi rocks. It was built among the stone rocks when the Bulgarian state was founded. It was natural inaccessible because its 2 sides was surrounded by rocks and there were built only two walls. Later...

Vidin

Regional History museum Vidin
Category: Museum in Vidin
Regional Historical museum of Vidin is one of the oldest scientific and cultural institutions in the town. The start of the museum activity in Vidin region is around 1910 when the Archaeological Society was established and the first museum collection was arranged.The museums is structured in sever...

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Vidin

Konaka museum
Category: Museum in Vidin
Konaka museum in town of Vidin is housed in building that is a unique architectural and cultural monument of local significance. It was built up in the XVIII-th century and served as a Turkish police station. After the Liberation from the Ottomans it was reconstructed and Bulgarian Renaissance archi...

Vidin

Krastata kazarma museum
Category: Museum in Vidin
Krastatata Kazarma (the "cross-shaped barracks") in Vidin was build in 1801 for the needs of the based in Vidin Ottoman army. Later, after the Liberation, it is used from the Bulgarian army.The building is 2-storey construction with total built-up area of 1260m2. It is shaped in form of cr...

Belogradchik

Kozarnika Cave
Category: Cave in Belogradchik
Kozarnika cave is located in karst region, 6 km away of the town of Belogradchik in direction Oreshets railway station. It is opened to the south, at 85 m above the valley. The cave is 210 meters long and in last years was well studied. There were uncovered 21 geological layers containing archaeolog...

Belogradchik

History museum
Category: Museum in Belogradchik
The Historical Museum in town of Belogradchik is housed in "Panovata kashta" - a building from 1810 and declared monument of culture. The museum was created in 1970 and there are exposed more than 6000 exhibits related to the period of the Ottoman rule and the Bulgarian Renaissance. There ...

Belogradchik

Museum of nature and science
Category: Museum in Belogradchik
The Natural History Museum of Belogradchik is located in the park area of the town. This is the only museum of this kind in North-western Bulgaria. Its exposition contains 520 exhibits, while the total fund is 3000 objects related to the flora and fauna of this region of Bulgaria.In the museum are ...

Vidin

Art Gallery Nikola Petrov
Category: Gallery in Vidin
The Regional Art Gallery in town of Vidin was founded in 1962 by the initiative of the local cultural and public figure Angel Budev. The current name Nikola Petrov is since 1976, when was the 60-year anniversary of the death of the great Vidin artist - Nikola Petrov. The gallery is housed in a buil...

Slanotrun

Ritual "The extraction of Jesus from the grave" (Easter)
Category: Events & Festivals in Slanotrun
"The extraction of Jesus Christ from the grave" is a unique ritual in village of Slanotran which takes place many years during the Easter (allegedly it dates to 1906 when the village church of the Assumption was built). Ritual represents in its own way the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Wh...

Rabisha

Magurata cave
Category: Cave in Rabisha
Magurata Cave is among Bulgaria`s biggest and most famous caves. It is located close to the village of Rabisha in Vidin district. Magourata is 2.5km long and is accommodated for tourists. There are many halls, some of which vast and adorned with beautiful rock formations. Large quantities of bones f...

Vidin

St.Dimitar Cathedral Temple
Category: Church in Vidin
The church "St. Dimitar" in town of Vidin is the second largest in Bulgaria after St Alexander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia. It was built at the end of XVII century and during its existence it has always been a center of cultural life of the Bulgarians from the region. The original building ...

Kula

Castra Martis fortress
Category: Fortress in Kula
Castra Martis fortress is situated on the teritory of the nowadays town of Kula. The site was part of the Roman province of Dacia. It was built in the beginning of 4th century AD under the reign of Emperor Diocletianus I on the sheer slope above the defile of the Voinishka river, where nowadays i...

Borovitsa

Cave Lepenishki pech
Category: Cave in Borovitsa
Cave Lepenishki pech (also known as Lepenitsa) is situated about 4 km southeast of town of Belogradchik and approximately 6 km northwest of the village Borovitsa, in area named "Markashnitsa". It is formed in reddish sandstone conglomerate and is a part of natural phenomenon "Belogr...

Florentin

Florentiana fortress
Category: Fortress in Florentin
The remains of the medieval fortress Florentiana are located about 1 kilometer west of the village of Florentin, in the locality "Valya Turchilor", near the Danube river. It is assumed the fortress was built in XII-XIII century and was well preserved until the beginning of XIX century. The...

Koshava

Roman fortress Ad marum
Category: Fortress in Koshava
The remains of a Roman fortress "Ad Marum" are located south of the village of Koshava near by the Danube River at an altitude of 35 meters.

Slanotrun

Church of the Assumption
Category: Church in Slanotrun

Belogradchik

Art Gallery
Category: Gallery in Belogradchik
The Art Gallery in Belogradchik was opened in 1983. There are exposed more than 180 works - graphics and paintings, including works of several famous Bulgarian artists as Vladimir Dimitrov - Maystora, Svetlin Rusev, Stoyan Venev, Ivan Hristov, Joan Leviev, Bahit Bapishev and others. Besides the per...

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