Sights in Region North-Western

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,...

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...

At the beginning of the XX-th century (1904 -1907) in the town of Pordim was founded a museum devoted to the participation of Romania in the Russo-Turkish war 1877-1878. The Museum is housed in a house built after the war, but which is close to the building (also preserved in its original form), ...

In the town of Vratsa is located Bulgaria`s only Museum of the Carriages. It is part of the Ethnographic Complex of the town. The beginning of this business in the region of Vratsa is launched in 1883 by Mito Orozov and a partner, who created the first workshop of this kind. After this Orozov bought...

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 Radetsky was an Austro-Hungarian passenger steamship built in 1851 and used for regular services on the Danube. It is most notable as part of the history of Bulgaria as the ship which revolutionary and poet Hristo Botev and his rebels bloodlessly hijacked and used to reach Kozloduy.The original...

This house-museum in town of Berkovitsa is devoted to the great Bulgarian writer and poet Ivan Vazov (called also "the patriarch of the Bulgarian literature"). From March 1879 until September 1880 Ivan Vazov was chairman of the Berkovitsa District Court. In 1957 his house (aka ...

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...