Sights in District Pleven

The Rock Church of St. Stephan is located in the "Plavala" locality, 1 km east of Nikopol. The church is carved into limestone rocks and there are lots of old inscriptions and drawings from the period of the rise of Christianity (III-IV century). In   X - XI century it was part of a monastery co...

The Fortress Kaleto (aka "Shsihmanova Fortress") is located on the western hill of Nikopol, overlooking the town. It was initially built by the Romans as a border fortifying post, and Nikopol was then built around this fortress. The fortress has been found to contain artifacts dating back to the...

Nowadays there are 33 panoramas all over the world. One of them with the biggest dimensions is constructed in Pleven and  was officially unveiled on 10 December 1977.The memorial is devoted to to five-months battles of Russian army during the Russian-Turkish war 1877-78 as a result of which B...

The remains of Roman military caste "Dimum" are located in the northern part of town of Belene (north of the "Vasil Levski" school). In the I-st century Dimum was a very important point of the Roman province of Moesia. Even during the regime of the first Roman Emperor Augustus...

Regional Historical Museum in Pleven is a inheritor of created in 1911 by the the Pleven Archaeological Society museum collection. Officially museum was open in 1953 as State Historical Museum and from 2000 it is converted to Regional Historical Museum - Pleven covering the territory of Pleven and...

The Wine Museum in Pleven is located in a cave in the park Kaylaka, near the dam "Totlebenov val". It was opened in 2008 as a common project of team of Bulgarian and French architects, designers and oenologists. The museum exhibition includes more than 7000 bottles of old and over 6000...

Iliya Beshkov Art Gallery in city of Pleven was open in 1958. This is the gallery that has the largest exhibition area in the town and is a leader in the cultural life of North-Central Bulgaria. There are displayed more than 6000 works of art, separated in different sections: Paintings, Graphics,...

The remains of fortress Storgozia are located in Kailuka park near city of Pleven. It was built in the late antiquity (IV-VI centuries) by the Romans and was with area of 31000 square meters. The fortress walls were 2 meters wide made by solid stones. Inside the fortress there were many residential...

At the beginning of the XX-th century (1904 -1907) in the town of Pordim was founded a museum devoted to the participation of Romania in the Russo-Turkish war 1877-1878. The Museum is housed in a house built after the war, but which is close to the building (also preserved in its original form), ...

The ruins of the ancient town Ulpia Eskus are located in Northwest part of Gigen village, 5 km. away from the place where the Iskar River (known in the antiquity with its Thracian name Eskus) flows into the Danube. The town was founded in the I-st century in the neighborhood of a Thracian settlement...