Sights in District Vidin

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...

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...

Castra Martis fortress is situated on the teritory of the nowadays town of Kula. The site was part of the Roman province  of Dacia. It was built in the beginning of 4th century AD under the reign of Emperor Diocletianus I on the sheer slope above the defile of the Voinishka river, where nowadays i...

The remains of the medieval fortress Florentiana are located about 1 kilometer west of the village of Florentin, in the locality "Valya Turchilor", near the Danube river. It is assumed the fortress was built in XII-XIII century and was well preserved until the beginning of XIX century. The...

The remains of a Roman fortress "Ad Marum" are located south of the village of Koshava near by the Danube River at an altitude of 35 meters....

The remains of the ancient Roman castle Dortikum are located about a kilometer west of the village of Vrav. The site was a little rectangular fortification (castle), whose longer walls were along the river, unlike the typical Roman castrums which were built much farther towards the shore and...