Sights in Municipality Teteven

Historical Museum of Teteven was founded in 1911 by Michal Koychev from Teteven. In 1932 the museum was relocated to own building - a home-memorial, built in honor of local people died for the freedom of Bulgaria. Here was placed the first museum collection, Later, in 1974, the museum was expanded a...

The Boatin reserve has an area of 1597.2 ha and is located above the village of Divchovoto. This is the largest national reserve of beech trees. Besides beech here can be seen hornbeam, shestil, maple, aspen and others. The average age of the trees is more than 130 years, but there are also...

Georgi Benkovski is great Bulgarian revolutionary from the National Revival, one of the leaders of the April Uprising 1876. This memorial is devoted to him and is located in area of Kostina (4km south-west of Ribaritsa), at place where Benkovski was shot dead and beheaded (12 May 1876) by the Ott...

The Glozhene Monastery St. Georgi Pobedonosets is situated near the village of Glozhene, 12 km north-west from the town of Teteven. Seen from below it is like a castle on the rocks, near the Lisets summit in Stara planina. According to the legend the monastery was built in the 13th century by the...

The Teteven Monastery St. Elias is situated at southern foots of Ostrets Peak - north-eastern part of town of Teteven. It was built in the times of the Second Bulgarian State.The monastery has an interesting architecture. The walls of the altar are semicircular, forming a trefoil.  In the temple a...

Boatin Preserve is located north of the Mount "Tetevenska Baba" in Stara Planina mountain, in the western part of the National Park Central Balkan, between the villages of Cherni Vit and Divchovoto. It was declared a reserve on June 12, 1948.The preserve is located at 800 to 2000 m altitude in the...

Morovitsa cave is located near the village of Glozhene (municipality of Teteven), 2 km away from the Glozhene monastery of "St. George Pobedonosets". Morovica is one of the longest caves in Bulgarian - 3025 meters underground galleries. The cave has two storey. It begins with a large...

Near the village of Cherni Vit is located a monument of Neyo Krachunov - resident of the village from Ostrilya hamlet, who in 1876 helped to Benkovski and his detachment after the defeat of the April uprising. Neyo hides the chieftain and his warriors in a cave above the village, which later came ...

The "Church of Virgin Mary" in village of Cherni Vit id new-built and is actively used by the local population, which is entirely Christian....

The Ethnographic museum collection in village of Cherni Vit was created in 1985 and is located in the building of "Hristo Smirnenski" community center. It aims to preserve the spirit of local artisans and traditions. Here the guests can found objects and tools used from the local p...