Sights in District Vidin

Borovitsa Monastery is located about 20 km from the village of Borovitsa and 12 km from the town of Belogradchik. It can be reached by the center of the village of Borovitsa, where there are signposts indicating the route.In the courtyard of the monastery is situated a church named Holy Trinity....

The church of "Ascension" in village of Vinarovo was built in 1934 with donations from local residents. Its architectural style is Romanesque. The church has a beautiful, rich ornate iconostasis and old icons that arouse astonishment....

Cave "Venetsa" is located in Kraishte locality, about 3 km. away by Gara Oreshets village. It was discovered in 1970 during blasting a quarry near station of Oreshets. In subsequent years, it has been studied and mapped by the cave Club "Bell prilep" (White bat) to tourusts-society "Belogradchik...

Ratsiaria was a large and important city on the Danube. His remains are located in area of Kaleto, 1 km north-east of the present village Archar (about 27 km. southeast of Vidin). The city was founded during the Roman Empire, but there was a Thracian settlement on this lands in IV-th c BC. In R...

Baba Vida fortress is one of the major attractions of the town of Vidin. It is one of the few entirely preserved medieval castle in Bulgaria. It is is situated on a big curve of the river Danube in the northeast part of the town. Its construction was started in X century at the place of an Ancient...

The Belogradchik Rocks are marvelous rock-formations located south of city of Belogradchik. They were formed of varicoloured Triassic sandstones and conglomerates. These have fantastic outlines - up to 200 meters high silhouettes of people, towers, ships, mushrooms, obelisks, palaces, and animals. ...

Belogradchik fortress (aka Kaleto) is located south-west of town of Belogradchik, near famous Belogradchi rocks. It was built among the stone rocks when the Bulgarian state was founded. It was natural inaccessible because its 2 sides was surrounded by rocks and there were built only two walls. Later...

Regional Historical museum of Vidin is one of the oldest scientific and cultural institutions in the town. The start of the museum activity in Vidin region is around 1910 when the Archaeological Society was  established and the first museum collection was arranged.The museums is structured in ...

The Church "Sveti spas" in the village of Drazhintsi was consecrated on September 18, 2010 by the bishop of Vidin - Dometian. Until then, there was no a church in the village. The name Sveti Spas has been chosen, because from decades the people from the village feast Spasovden as official holiday of...

Konaka museum in town of Vidin is housed in building that is a unique architectural and cultural monument of local significance. It was built up in the XVIII-th century and served as a Turkish police station. After the Liberation from the Ottomans it was reconstructed and Bulgarian Renaissance...