Sights in Region North-Western

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...

The ruins of the ancient town Ulpia Eskus are located in Northwest part of Gigen village, 5 km. away from the place where the Iskar River (known in the antiquity with its Thracian name Eskus) flows into the Danube. The town was founded in the I-st century in the neighborhood of a Thracian settlement...

The remains of the medieval fortress Krivgrad (aka "Kaleto") are located about 1.5 km south from the village of Karash, along Iskar river, near the road town of Roman - village of Karash - town of Pravetz. The Fortress is oriented east-west following the relief of the hill on which it was...

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...

Lovech ZOO is is the second biggest in Bulgaria, both by size and variety of animals after this Sofia ZOO. it is located in town of Lovech in the eastern part of the Strattesh park and is one of the most visited places in the town....

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...

Kumanitsa cave is located in the lands of the village of Cherni Osam (Municipality Troyan, Lovech region). It is situated in the borders of Steneto reserve (Eastern Troyan Balkan) in the narrowest and most picturesque part of the canyon, over the beautiful waterfall "Big Kazan". The cave e...

The church "Voznesenie Christovo" ("Church of Ascension") in the village of Shipkovo was built by local masters and masters from the Tryavna Art School. It is built of stone without a dome and cross on the roof. The church has icons by Zachary Zograph, by different masters from Tryavna school and ...

Troyan region is well-known for its traditions in cultivation of plums and production of high quality plum rakia (brandy). As result, each autumn in Troyan is held a Plum Festival. Its main purpose is to attract and to give possibilities to the local people and producers to show their domestic ...

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 ...