Route route is Bregovo – Balei – Kudelin – Vrat – Novo Selo – Florentin – Negovanovci – Kapitanov – Vidin
A route for beginners, families with children and people with disabilities, 43 km and quite flat. The roads are in good condition, so they do not cause any problems for cyclists.
We leave Bregovo, a town on the border with Serbia, and pedal along the border passing through the village of Balei and we head right to the Danube, passing through the villages of Kudelin and Vrav. The route then follows the county road along the Danube towards the Florentin village, passing through Novo-Selo.
From Florentin we leave the Danube and we go on route 122 to the south to reach the finishing point of the Vidin route, crossing the Negovanovts and the Kapitanovts villages on our way.
The Regional History Museum in Vidin is one of the oldest scientific and cultural institutions in the city. The beginning of the museum’s activity in the Vidin region is somewhere around 1910, when the Archeological Society was established and the first museum collection was set up.
The museum is structured in several sections:
– Archeology (Department of Pre-History, Antiquity and Eve-Medium) – The rich exhibition of the section is located in the Konaka restored building (1977).
– Numismatic – over 30 thousand coins.
– Ethnography – The exhibition was located in Krastata Kazarma („cross-shaped barracks”) since 1969.
– The 15th-19th century Bulgarian lands – the exhibition is located in the Konaka Museum (Old Turkish Police Station).
– Modern history
– Recent history
– Public relations
The address of the Vidin Regional History Museum is Street. Tsar Simeon Veliki no. 13, 3700 Vidin.
Krastatata Kazarma (the „cross-shaped barracks”) in Vidin was built in 1801 for the needs of the Ottoman army in Vidin. Later, after Liberation, it is used by the Bulgarian army.
The building is built on 2 floors, with a total built area of 1260 square meters. It has the shape of a cross from where its name originates.
Between 1965 and 1967, the building was restored and transformed into a museum that is now part of the Vidin Regional Historical Museum. The exhibition presents the economic life of the Vidin region from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
The Krastata kazarma Museum address is Street. Knyaz Boris I no. 26, Kaleto district, Vidin.
„Danubia” is a unique holiday complex, situated in the forefront of the Danube River, in the picturesque village Tsar Simeon, near Vidin.
An apartment hotel with an outdoor pool, restaurant, bar, beautifully landscaped garden, fine sandy beach, its own boat dock. The stylishly furnished studios and apartments offer the comfort of home with all the conditions for cooking and dining, combined with the quality services of a modern hotel.
„Danubia Beach” is about 200 km northwest of the capital Sofia, 15 km from Vidin, about 20 km from the border with Romania and Serbia.
The Vrashka peak is withdrawn in northwest Bulgaria at the forefront of the West, between Vidin and Serbia.
The height of the isolated peak Vrashka rises to the west of the frontier and is at the border with Serbia between border crossing points 403 and 410. From north to south of the state border its height is divided into two parts: much of it goes to the southeast, while the smallest part enters the Bulgarian territory. The lower part, which is larger, is on Serbian territory.
The peak is mainly made of Jurassic limestone. It is characterized by steep slopes in all directions, to the south by a small saddle (450 m) associated with Babin Nas and North Vrashka saddle (367 meters) separates the tip of the Baci flat basin. The length of the peak from the northwest to the southeast is 3km and the width is 1-1.2km. The maximum height is Mount Vrashka (692 meters), which rises more than 300 meters above the flat surrounding areas. The hill is covered with bushes and low forests, and the highest peaks are bare, and at the bottom is agricultural land.
To the north of the Vrashka saddle at the Vrashka control point there is a secondary road II-14 from Vidin to Kula, to the Serbian town of Zajecar, 11 km west of the saddle. In the northwest of the peak, on Serbian territory, there is a coal deposit.
Castro Martis is a late Roman fortress, whose remains can be visited today by tourists in the town of Kula in northwestern Bulgaria.
In the ’70s of the nineteenth century, Felix Kanitz discovers in the center of Kula the impressive remains of Castra Martis fortress.
The fortress stretches on a steep slope over the Voinishka River in the center of Kula today. Archaeological research has revealed that on the same slope, before the castle was built, there was a small Roman-Roman settlement dating from the first millennium BC.
The fortress is composed of two parts – a small square fortress – quadriburgius and the largest castle located south of it.
Northwest of the fort were found foundations of a Roman bath, indicating that civilians lived outside the castle.
The castle is part of the restored Danube border of the Roman Empire after it lost Dacia at the end of the third century. The restoration may have been made by Emperor Diocletian somewhere between the 3rd and 4th centuries.
The Martis Castra was destroyed during the Avars’ invasion in the Roman Empire in the years 586-587. In the 13th to 14th centuries, the fortress was partially restored and used to defend Vidin.
Address: Complex Impuls Palace, Yuzhna Promishlena Zone, 3700 Vidin, Bulgaria
Phone: +359 88 375 6575
Address: str. Tsar Ivan Stratsimir no. 9
Address: Vidin, Vitosha St 4, Bulgaria
Telephone: +359 94 600 342
The „Danube On 2 Wheels” Project is co-financed by the European Union though the European Regional Development Fund, within the INTERREG V-A Romania – Bulgaria Programme.
The total eligible value of the project is EUR 497.713,26, of which EUR 423.056,25 represents the value of the European Union contribution through the European Regional Development Fund.
The content of this website does not necessarily represent the official position of the European Union. The initiators of the site are the sole responsibles for the information provided through the site.
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Bregovo – Vidin route
Touristic objectives in area
Regional History Museum, Vidin
Krastata kazarma Museum, Vidin
Danubia Beach, Simeonovo
Vrashka Chuka Peak
Fortress „Castra Martis”, Kula
Impuls Palace Hotel, Vidin
Vida Family Hotel, Vidin
Evergreen Restaurant, Vidin
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- „Danube on 2 Wheels” Tourist Center (ACTIS Sport Club – Calarasi)
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- Level – Beginners
- Total vertical climb – 120 m
- Duration – 1 day
- Distance – 43 km
- Surface – paved
- Bicycle type – cursor
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