Sights in Region North-Western

The remains of Roman military caste "Dimum" are located in the northern part of town of Belene (north of the "Vasil Levski" school). In the I-st century Dimum was a very important point of the Roman province of Moesia. Even during the regime of the first Roman Emperor Augustus...

The Cherepish monastery "The Assumption of Virgin Mary" is located in the Iskar defile of the Balkan mountain, 2km south-west of village of Lyutibrod and  29km southeast of the town of Vratsa. It was built during the ruling of king Ivan Shishman (1371-1393) and as most of Bulgarian mo...

The Natural Science Museum in village of Cherni Osam (Troayn municipality) was established in 1956 by Iliya Hristov Iliev (the local teacher of Biology) who started to research and collect information to help his students from the Biology circle. Bit by bit the interesting collection starts to...

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 fortress "Sostra" ("sostra" in ancient Greek means girdle, bandage, barrier) is a Roman military post, built over the ruins of a Thracian settlement. It is situated south-east of village of Lomets, 12 km. north of the town of Troyan and 28 km. south of Lovech, in the valley of the Osam ...

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...

The Art Gallery in Varshetz is housed in the building of the old secondary school, built in 1872. The Gallery has more than 600 paintings and sculptures from wood, clay and gypsum. The gallery is compiled by the donations of art workshops held during the traditional "Feast of the resort, mineral ...

Historical Museum of Lom was founded in 1925. Today it is housed in an the old municipality building.The museum exhibits are displayed in 5 main sections: "Archaeology", "Bulgaria XV-XIX centuries", "New History", "Ethnography" and "Art."....

"Bridge of God" (aka "Jabokrek") is a natural phenomenon located in the karst area between the villages of Lilyache and Chiren, about 15 km north of Vratsa. Chiren-Lilyache karst region is one of the most attractive in Bulgaria and includes many water caves, karst springs,...

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...