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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...

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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 ...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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Silistra Art Gallery
Category: Gallery in Silistra
Silistra Art Gallery is located in center of the town. It is housed in a beautiful building (former pedagogical school) which dates back to 1890 and is in "Late Secession" style.In the gallery are exhibited more than 1500 art works (paintings, prints, sculptures and other) of great Bulgar...

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Kurshumlu mosque
Category: Mosque in Silistra
Kurshumlu mosque in Silistra is located in central part of the town. It is declared a monument of culture of local importance. The building was constructed in the first decades of the XVI century and best reflects the mastership of the Osman architects. It got its name after the lead layers covering...

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Silistra Public holiday(14 September)
Category: Events & Festivals in Silistra
The public holiday of town of Silistra is on the date of the religious holiday Krastovden (September 14) but during the entire month of September the town hosts various traditional festivities including musical concerts, swimming across Danube river, sport events, beer fest and others.

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Monument of the 31st `Iron` Silistra Regiment
Category: Memorial in Silistra
This monument in Silistra is devoted to the heroism of the members of 31st Infantry Regiment during the II World War. The regiment was founded immediately after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman rule. In the beginning it was based in Varna but in 1904 was moved to Silistra. The regiment...

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International Theatre Laboratory Yan Bibiyan
Category: Events & Festivals in Silistra
The International Puppet Theatre Festival Yan Bibian and the International Theatre Laboratory Yan Bibian are held annually in late of May in Silistra. During the festival program groups from different countries performed for the kids. The theatrical laboratory is for the artists and cultural who dis...

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Archaeological museum
Category: Museum in Silistra
The Archaeological museum of Silistra is housed into a building constructed in the period 1923-1924 as a branch of the Romanian National Bank in Silistra. Since 1990 it hasbeen housing the Archaeological display of the History museum - Silistra. The expositions occupy an area of 400 sq.m. and inclu...

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Ethnographic museum Silistra
Category: Museum in Silistra
The Ethnography museum in Silistra was inaugurated in 1967. It is housed in a building from the middle of XIX century - former edifice of the Turkish police.The exhibition of the Ethnography museum occupies an area of 300 sq.m. in 10 rooms. It comprises artifacts featuring the lifestyle and the cult...

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Church St. apostles Peter and Paul
Category: Church in Silistra
Church St. apostles Peter and Paul in Silistra was built after the Crimean war by the masters from the leading in this period Dryanovo School of Architecture. The murals were painted by the famous Bulgarian painter prof.Kozhuharov. In 2001, during his visit to Bulgaria, the Pope John Paul II donated...

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Armenian Apostolic Church "Surp Astvadzadzin"
Category: Church in Silistra
The Armenian Apostolic Church "Surp Astvadzadzin" (in Bulgarian "Virgin Mary") in town of Silistra is the oldest Armenian church in Bulgaria. Information about the building of the temple was found on the inscription over a stone which was dug into the earthen floor of the church...

Profesor Ishirkovo

Church St.prophet Elijah
Category: Church in Profesor Ishirkovo
The church St.prophet Elijah (Sveti Prorok Iliya) in village of Profesor Ishirkovo was built in 1906 by a order of the bishop of Dorostolo-Cherven diocese - father Vasility.

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Roman Villa
Category: Archaeological site in Silistra
In the eastern part of town of Silistra were discovered remains of a large Roman villa, dating back to II-IV century. It was built not far away of downtown (the Forum) of the ancient town-fortress Durostorum. In II-III century it was inhabited by wealthy aristocratic family. At the end of III-th...

Vetren

Tegelitsium fortress
Category: Fortress in Vetren
The Roman town and fortress Tegulitsium was located around 4 km north of the center of nowadays village of Vetren (Silistra municipality). In Medieval times the fortress existed under the name Vetrinon (or Vetren). It was stretched at hill 300 meters long and 150 meters wide, at an altitude of about...

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The Russian church in Tataritsa
Category: Church in Aydemir
The Russian Old-ritual church "Pokrov Presvetoy Bogoroditse" is located in Tataritsa (former separate village - nowadays part of village of Aydemir). In XVII century in Tataritsa were settled Cossacks from Don (Russia) who were banished by the reforms of the Russian Emperor Petar The Gre...

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