Sights in District Vidin

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 ...

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...

Krastatata Kazarma (the "cross-shaped barracks") in Vidin was build in 1801 for the needs of the based in Vidin Ottoman army. Later, after the Liberation, it is used from the Bulgarian army.The building is 2-storey construction with total built-up area of 1260m2. It is shaped in form of...

The Historical Museum in town of Belogradchik is housed in "Panovata kashta" - a building from 1810 and declared monument of culture. The museum was created in 1970 and there are exposed more than 6000 exhibits related to the period of the Ottoman rule and the Bulgarian Renaissance. There...

The Natural History Museum of Belogradchik is located in the park area of the town. This is the only museum of this kind in North-western Bulgaria. Its exposition contains 520 exhibits, while the total fund is 3000 objects related to the flora and fauna of this region of Bulgaria.In the museum are ...

The Regional Art Gallery in town of Vidin was founded in 1962 by the initiative of the local cultural and public figure Angel Budev. The current name Nikola Petrov is since 1976, when was the 60-year anniversary of the death of the great Vidin artist - Nikola Petrov. The gallery is housed in a ...

The Art Gallery in Belogradchik was opened in 1983. There are exposed more than 180 works - graphics and paintings, including works of several famous Bulgarian artists as Vladimir Dimitrov - Maystora, Svetlin Rusev, Stoyan Venev, Ivan Hristov, Joan Leviev, Bahit Bapishev and others. Besides the ...

Asen Balkanski (his real name is Slavcho Georgiev Drotsanov) was a guerrilla, a participant in the antifascist movement during World War II and commander of Pirot guerrilla detachment. He was born in 1920 in village of Chuprene and died in 1943 in a battle against the fascists near village Topli...