Vidin Travel Guide

 johngayton Says:  Generally wandering around Vidin one comes across a plethora of different historical, artistic and architectural delights very few of which actually seem to be labelled or signed in any way. Discovering what's what or who's who can take quite a bit of research as there... 

 josephescu Says:  Testimony of the past glory of the city, of an era of fruitful trade & a poli-ethnic society, the abandoned synagogue lies today hidden among vegetation and behind communist era blocks of flats. But it makes a romantic sight, wandering around and inside it, for this is all... 

 josephescu Says:  The mosque finds herself in a much better state as compared with the nearby synagogue…...i thought this was because the Muslim community of Vidin is still alive....but apparently this is not the case., for there are hardly any muslims left in Vidin today. Pazvantoglu mosque... 

 johngayton Says:  Whist Vidin is well-endowed with both ancient and recent mouments to its long and interesting history the Fortress of Baba Vida is without doubt the most impressive. This is Bulgaria's best preserved Medieval Castle and has been sympathetically restored to pretty much its... 

 josephescu Says:  Typically soviet piece of civic architecture depicting an oversized woman on top of a tall column. The monument is now covered in graffiti and red paint. Raised to pretext a celebration of the WWII resistance against Nazis, it was soon associated another significance –... 

 josephescu Says:  One of the few public acknowledgements of the postwar political repression in communist Bulgaria. The memorial looks like a rather modern church and is locked. Looking at it, I couldn’t refrain an evil thought – communism victims seem…quite insignificant and small, even... 

 josephescu Says:  I did not visit the Thracian and Roman artefacts, jewellery & statues inside, but I wandered around the beautifully restored downtown villa which hosts the museum – the pagoda shaped wooden building used to be a police station (aka konak) during the Turkish rule in the 19th... 

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 johngayton Says:  I've had to call this "The Other One..." as I never did manage to work out what its name is, assuming that it actually has a name. At first I thought it was called "Ariana" but that's the name of the beer!!Anyway, name aside, this was the first time I had actually been... 

 josephescu Says:  to/from Romania, by boat.....see my Calafat page. 

 denise_BG Says:  Unique architecture. Beautiful old private houses, built by wealthy people who lived there. Today Vidin is the town with the highest rate of unemployment in the country.On the picture - St. Dimitar Cathedral, the second largest in the country after St. Alexander Nevski in... 

 Markiles Says:  As soon as you enter the region of Belogradchik ,your eyes are drawn to the amazing rock formations ,rising from the hills like stone guardians.Many have been given names by the locals because they resemble people or animals.The town itself is a delightful place ,clean and... 

 denise_BG Says:  Vidin is one of the oldest towns along the Bulgarian Danube bank. It appears as the Roman fortress of Bononia on the foundations of a Thracian settlement. During the First Bulgarian Kingdom it is known as Budin (Bdin). Bishop's centre. During the Second Bulgarian Kingdom it...