Route route is Vidin – Dunavti – Tar Simeonovo – Botevo – Arcear – Mali Drenovets – Izvor – Dimovo – Granitovo – Belogradcik.
It is a roundabout route for the advanced, where we will pedal around 130 km with a night of accommodation in Belogradcik.
They leave Vidin and pedal along the Danube, passing through the Danube, Tsar Simeonovo, Botevo and Arcear, from where we leave the Danube, heading west.
We continue the route along county road 1102 until we reach Dimovo village, passing through the villages Mali Drenovets and Izvor.
From Dimovo we begin to descend southwards to Belogradcik, passing through the village of Granitovo.
We are half way, so we will rest in Belogradcik overnight so that on the second day we start with fresh forces and pedal back on the same route to Vidin.
Belogradcik is a small town built at the base of the same name, and is a very popular tourist destination due to its rocky cliffs, Belogradchik Rocks, which offer one of the most spectacular sceneries in Europe.
Belogradchik (also known as Kaleto) is located southwest of Belogradchik, near the famous Belogradchik cliffs.
It was built among the stone rocks when the Bulgarian state was established. It was naturally inaccessible, because the two sides were surrounded by stones and so only two walls were built.
Subsequently, the Ottoman conquerors extended the fortress. In 1850, the fortress played a negative role in Belogradchik’s Revolt. After the rebels were crushed, some of the most prominent people in the city were taken out of the city through a tunnel and were beheaded. At the same place of execution, a monument was built in the memory of those people.
The fortress was used for the last time during the Serbian-Bulgarian war of 1885.
Nowadays the fortress has been restored and organized as an open-air museum.
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.
The „Planina Burgas” area includes a hill on the outskirts of the village, and part of the Belogradchik rocks on which the television tower is built.
In the boulders of red and white sandstone millions of years old, there are hundreds of stones filled with rusty metal parts that seem to fortify the rock. Obviously the metals are of a technogenic nature. The metal creates the impression that it has dissolved through the cliffs during their interactions when the metal was fluid, then hardening too fast. Holes are deep. Some have a depth deeper than a few meters. There are two visible holes in the rock that can be seen as a telescope. There are metal plates, 20-30 years ago, like those made in today’s factories.
Tests carried out on samples showed the presence of 80-90% iron content. Iron, tens of millions of years old, perhaps a product of unknown human civilization. Atlantis? Or maybe before Atlantis? Iron alone preserved through oxidation and magnetic properties – near a magnet, fragments stick to the magnet – and that despite the fact that probably in the past 1-2 million years was exposed in bad weather. We do not exaggerate at all when we say that studying the phenomenon of „Planina Burgas” can lead to the discovery of new technologies for the production, processing and industrial applications of this material; „It is supposed” that it was used by the modern man in its simple form 3,200 years ago.
„Kozarnika”, „Magura” and „Planinita, Burgas” – three phenomenal monuments of world importance, all under the same charisma of nature, almost in the same place in northwestern Bulgaria. These phenomena can change the dominant scientific view at this moment on the origin of the earth, the origin of man’s life and evolution.
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.
Address: Complex Impuls Palace, Yuzhna Promishlena Zone, 3700 Vidin, Bulgaria
Phone: +359 88 375 6575
Address: str. Tsar Ivan Stratsimir no. 9
Address: Hadji Dimitar 1, 3900 Tsentar, Belogradchik
Telephone: +359 89 873 3818
Address: Vidin, Vitosha St 4, Bulgaria
Telephone: +359 94 600 342
Address: Hadji Dimitar 13, 3900 Tsentar, Belogradcik
Telephone: +359 87 946 6143
Address: Belogradchik, Str. Vasil Levski, 2307 Tsentar, Pernik
Address: Peyo Yavorov 12, 3900 Tsentar, Belogradchik
Telephone: +359 88 963 0716
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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Route Vidin – Belogradcik and return
Touristic objectives in area
Fort Belogradchik, Belogradchik
Regional History Museum, Vidin
Krastata kazarma Museum, Vidin
„Planinita, Burgas” area, near Belogradchik
Vrashka Chuka Peak
Impuls Palace Hotel, Vidin
Vida Family Hotel, Vidin
Family Hotel Restaurant The Rocks
Evergreen Restaurant, Vidin
Bedrock Guesthouse
Markashnitsa Tavern
House Djaia Guesthouse
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- About the project
- AISSER
- Useful information
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- „Danube on 2 Wheels” Tourist Center (ACTIS Sport Club – Calarasi)
- „Danube on 2 Wheels” Tourist Center ( „Sport for you and me – Sports Club Canoeing” Association – Belogradchik)
- Level – advanced
- Total vertical lift – 700 m
- Duration – 2 days
- Distance – 130 km
- Surface – paved
- Bicycle type – cursor
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