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Sreburna Natural Reserve
Category: Reserve in Sreburna
The Biosphere Reserve Srebarna is located 2 km south of the Danube river near village with the same name (Srebarna) in the municipality of Silistra. The reserve includes the lake of Srebarna and its surroundings - about 660 hectares guarded area and buffer zone of about 540 hectares. The reserve hou...

Silistra

Medjidi Tabia fortress
Category: Fortress in Silistra
The Medjidi Tabia fortress is located at hill south of town of Silistra. The fort is the best preserved of total six facilities of Ottoman fortification system used during Crimean War (1853 - 1856) and Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878).The fortress has hexagon form and reach 8m in high. It was built ...

Silistra

Durostorum - Drastar fortress
Category: Fortress in Silistra
Fortress Drustar (Roman name Durostorum) is located in borders of modern town of Silistra. In its beginning it probably occurred as a Thracian stronghold which base was used by the Romans to build large and strong fortress-city along the Danube. The town flourished in the first III-II centuries B...

Profesor Ishirkovo

Monument to the fallen military pilots
Category: Memorial in Profesor Ishirkovo
South-west of village of Professor Ishirkovo (near Silistra) was built a memorial devoted to three Soviet pilots who died in this region at 14 September 1943.

Strelkovo

Rock sanctuary Badjaliata
Category: Archaeological site in Strelkovo
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).

URL: http://www.strelkovo.silistra.eu

Garvan

Museum of Communism
Category: Museum in Garvan
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...

URL: http://www.garvan.silistra.eu

Tutrakan

Ethnographical open-air museum Fishermen Village
Category: Museum in Tutrakan
The "Fishermen’s village" (aka "Fisherman`s neighborhood") in Tutrakan is a naturally formed fishermen’s hamlet dating back to the years of the National Revival. It is located next to the church St. Nicholas at the Danube waterside in the northeastern part of the town. Here t...

Silistra

Roman tomb
Category: Archaeological site in Silistra
The Roman tomb in Silistra is one of the most famous in Bulgaria antique monument which dates back to IV century when the town was a Roman fortress named Durostorum. It is a unicameral vaulted stone building with an entrance on the East and dimensions 3.3m x 2.60m x 2.30m.The tomb is famous with its...

Tutrakan

Memorial Complex Military Tomb Tutrakan
Category: Memorial in Tutrakan
The Military Tomb Memorial Complex (aka Military Graveyard Tutrakan 1916) near village of Shumentsi is built in memory of those who died in 1916 for the liberation of Dobrudzha in the battle for Tutrakan (5 and 6 September, 1916)

Golesh

Rock-hewn Churches in Suhata Reka area
Category: Archaeological site in Golesh
The Rock-hewn churches in area of Suhara reka ("The dry river") near village of Golesh (Silistra region) are the earliest rock monasteries in the Bulgarian lands, dating back to the early Christian era, the period of late antiquity and early Byzantium. The complex includes seven monaster...

Tutrakan

Fortress Transmariska
Category: Fortress in Tutrakan
The remains of the Late Roman castle of Transmarisca are located in borders of nowadays town of Tutrakan.The fortification was built in the end of the III-th century by emperor Diokletian after one of his victories against enemy’s tribes. Part of 11-th Claudius Legion was accommodated there.Transm...

Okorsh

Ethnography Museum Home-Land
Category: Museum in Okorsh
The Museum "Roden Kray" (Homeland / Native lands) in village of Okorsh was opened in 2001. The museum includes archaeological and ethnographic collections which trace the history of the local population. The museum is located in the building of the old school. There, in a special worksh...

Silistra

Monument of the Soviet Army
Category: Memorial in Silistra
This Monument of the Soviet Army in town of Silistra is located in the town park, close to Danube river. It is a stone compositions of several Soviet soldiers and near by it is exhibited an authentic tank from the period of Second World War.

Dolno Ryahovo

Fortress Nigrinianis
Category: Fortress in Dolno Ryahovo
The ruins of the Late-Roman fortress Nigrinianis are located near village of Dolno Ryahovo in an area called "Bairaktar chair", 3.7 km north of the village and 0.5 km southwest of the wharf in the areas of Gradishteto and Maraya. According to the map of Castoria, the site was a station on ...

Tutrakan

Archeological museum Tutrakan
Category: Museum in Tutrakan
The work of History Museum of Tutrakan is dedicated to research, exhibition-planning, social and cultural-restoration activities. It is traces the history of Tutrakan and the region from the antiquity to the liberation from Romanian occupation in 1940. The museum hosts many documents and results f...

Vetren

Museum of Fishing
Category: Museum in Vetren
The museum of Fishing in village of Vetren was opened in 2007. This is the 2-nd museum in Bulgaria related to the fishing at Danube river. The museum is hosted in the building of the community center and there are two exhibitions - fishing and ethnography.

Malak Preslavets

Candidiana fortress
Category: Fortress in Malak Preslavets
The ruins of late antique town and fortress Candidiana are located in lands of Malak Preslavets village, around 4.2 km north of the lilies marsh and 0.5 km east of the pier in the area of "Sara Borun". It was founded during the end of the III-th and beginning of the IV-th century and exist...

Zafirovo

History museum
Category: Museum in Zafirovo
Historical museum in Zafirovo village was established in 1987 on the initiative of the local community center. There are exhibits related to some of the most important historic events in the region.The museum is housed in a one-storey building with 4 exhibition halls. - The first room displays primi...

Tutrakan

Ethnographic Museum Danube fishing and boatbuilding
Category: Museum in Tutrakan
The Ethnographic Museum "Danube fishing and boat-building" is located in town of Tutrakan. It was opened in 1974 and is the only one along the Danube river. The museum preserves the rich material and spiritual culture, social structure and lifestyle of the Bulgarians from the Danube-situat...

Garvan

Ethnographic Museum Exposition
Category: Museum in Garvan
The Ethnographic Museum Exposition in village of Garvan was open in 1970 on the initiative of the management of the local community center "Dimitur Ivanov Polianov". The objects for the exhibit were gathered by the local residents.The exposition contains:- a map with the historical bounda...

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