Sights in Municipality Belogradchik

Borovitsa Monastery is located about 20 km from the village of Borovitsa and 12 km from the town of Belogradchik. It can be reached by the center of the village of Borovitsa, where there are signposts indicating the route.In the courtyard of the monastery is situated a church named Holy Trinity....

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 &...

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 ...

The Astronomical Observatory in Belogradchik was built in 1961 by a group of astronomy fans, led by Hristo Kostov  - a teacher in physics at the Belogradchik high school. The Observatory has 2 domes (diameters 6 and 4 meters) and  3 telescopes: - the first (and oldest one) is a 15 cm telescope &q...