Sights in Municipality Botevgrad

The Monastery "St. 40 Martyrs" ("Sveti 40 Machenitsi") near village of Vrachesh (Botevgrad municipality) is located amidst gorgeous scenery of the Balkan Mountain, 5km west from the center of the village. The monastery was founded during the Second Bulgarian kingdom in XIII ...

The Historical Museum in Botevgrad was created in 1952. He is a successor of the established in 1937 an open museum collection to the local high school.The Museum Fund includes more than 15,000 artifacts: tools,  ceramics, a marble slab with the image of a Thracian horseman, photos and documents rel...

Bojenishki Urvich is a medieval fortress located on high mountain hill near village Bojenitsa (region of Botevgrad). It was built in V and destroyed in XIV century. The citadel was accessible only from the north direction (were nowadays village of Bozhenitsa is situated). Archaeological studies have...

On December 1 Botevgrad municipality celebrates its official public holiday. On this date in 1934 the town was renamed from the Turkish Orhanie to Botevgrad, after the great Bulgarian revolutionary Hristo Botev. There are musical and cultural events on this date in Botevgrad....

The Memorial ossuary in village of Skravena keeps the remains of ten Botev rebels who in 1876 were killed and beheaded by the Turks. The memorial complex was built in 1982 and is located on the main square in the center of the village. It has free entrance. The Charnel house in Skravena was d...

Georgi Asparuhov (aka Gundi) and Nikola Kotkov are great Bulgarian footballers who on June 30, 1971 died tragically in a car accident near Vitinya Pass in the Stara Planina Mountain. Near the place of their death was erected a memorial plaque in their honor....

Hristo Botev (January 6, 1848 - June 2, 1876) is great Bulgarian historical figure, poet, revolutionary and national hero. In 1934 the modern town of Botevgrad was renamed from Orhanie to its current name in honor of Hristo Botev....

The Clock Tower in town of Botevgrad is one of the symbols of the town. The building dates back to year of 1866. Its master is Vuno Markov but the architect of the tower is unknown. The tower is 30 meters high and is actually the highest clock tower in Bulgaria. Point of interest in its construction...