Sights in Municipality 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 B...

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...

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 ...

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 t...

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...

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...

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 female figu...