Sights in Municipality Berkovitsa

This house-museum in town of Berkovitsa is devoted to the great Bulgarian writer and poet Ivan Vazov (called also "the patriarch of the Bulgarian literature"). From March 1879 until September 1880 Ivan Vazov was chairman of the Berkovitsa District Court. In 1957 his house (aka ...

The church "Virgin Birth" in Berkovitsa was built in the XVIII century. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1835. The iknostas was carved by Stoycho Fandakov from Samokov and gilded in 1843. The icons were painted by Dimitar Zograph also from Samokov. The church holiday is on 8 September, when the ...

The clock-tower is located in the center of Berkovica at one of the corners of Yordan Radichkov square. It is one of the oldest clock towers in Bulgaria (built 1762 - 1764) which have working clock-mechanism. The tower impresses with a solid construction. It is 21.24 meters high and has a clean ar...