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Panorama Pleven Epopee - 1877
Category: Memorial in Pleven
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 Bulgar...

Pleven

Regional History Museum Pleven
Category: Museum in Pleven
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 L...

URL: http://www.plevenmuseum.dir.bg/

Belene

Roman military castle "Dimum"
Category: Fortress in Belene
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 th...

Pleven

Storgozia fortress
Category: Fortress in Pleven
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 ...

Pleven

Iliya Beshkov Art Gallery
Category: Gallery in Pleven
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, Sc...

URL: http://plevengallery.hit.bg/

Pleven

Cave museum of the wine
Category: Museum in Pleven
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 bot...

Gigen

Ancient town Ulpia Eskus
Category: Archaeological site in Gigen
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...

Shiakovo

Memorial of perished in wars for Bulgaria
Category: Memorial in Shiakovo
In village of Shiakovo was erected a monument devoted to the local people perished in various wars for Bulgaria. The monument represents a large stone block in the form of a truncated pyramid, with memorial plaque on which are inscribed the names of the dead soldiers.Near the memorial is exposed a w...

Shiakovo

Monumnet of Vasil Levski
Category: Memorial in Shiakovo
The Monument of the Apostle of freedom Vasil Levski in village of Shiakovo was erected in July, 2011 on the occasion of 174 anniversary of the hero. The funds for its construction were by donations from companies which cultivate the lands of the village.The monument is situated in a garden, front o...

Pleven

Pleven Public Holiday (10 December)
Category: Events & Festivals in Pleven
On 10-th of December Pleven celebrates its official holiday. The date is related with the Russian-Turkish war and the battle for the liberation of Pleven, which gained a strategic importance and focused the attention of the world public for 5 months. Huge military troops of the two Empires were con...

Pleven

Water cascade
Category: Fountain in Pleven
The water cascades in Pleven are an water complex that has more than 1,500 m2 of water-covered area with more than 10 waterfalls, fountains, 3 water mirrors, differently modeled water streams and splashes. It has been built in Pleven downtown in 1982. The complex is very beautiful during the night w...

Pleven

Museum-Ossuary in Skobelev Park
Category: Memorial in Pleven
The Ossuary-museum in Skobelev park in Pleven is situated near the Pleven panorama (150 meters east of it). It was built in 1978 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Battle for Pleven in the Russo-Turkish War. Here are buried the bones of many Russian soldiers and officers who were gave...

Gortalovo

Karst canyon Chernelka
Category: Rock-formation in Gortalovo
The Karst canyon Chernelka is located in the central part of the Danube plain, north-west of village of Gortalovo, some 12 km away from town of Pleven.The canyon is 60 to 200 m wide, and height of the rocks is from 10 to 40 m. It stretches for 6.5 km along the river Chernelka. In the region was open...

Pleven

Statue "Mother Bulgaria"
Category: Statue in Pleven
The monument "Mother Bulgaria" in Pleven was erected to mark the 100th anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria. It is Located front of the Skobelev park-museum. The statue was made by the sculptor Dimitar Boykov and the architect Atanas Atanasov. It represents a composition of a ...

Borislav

Ostrich farm "Bulostrich"
Category: ZOO in Borislav
The ostrich farm "BULOSTRICH" is located in the village of Borislav, about 30 km southeast of the town of Pleven, near to the former airbase Kamenets. The farm was established in 2000 and was the first tribal ostrich farm in Bulgaria. The farm has its own incubator and hatchery. Here, ex...

Varana

"St. Martyr Dimitar" church
Category: Church in Varana
The church "St. Dimitar" in village of Varana is located in the central part of the village. The temple was built in 1933 with volunteer labor and resources of the local population. The church is part of Pavlikeni clerical district, Veliko Tarnovo diocese.

Kateritsa

Ethnographic Museum
Category: Museum in Kateritsa
The Ethnographic exposition in village of Kateritsa was established on 27.05.2006 in the building of the former school. Here are displayed many models and objects and are recreated scenes related to the lifestyle of people from the region in the past. Among the many exhibits there can be seen applia...

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