And while cycling adventures along the route have a special charm, travelers can explore the region using their preferred mode of trans- portation. The Dunav Ultra app will guide explorers to the best places to stay and eat and all the natural and cultural sights worth exploring.
boat. This will offer a unique vantage point for viewing popular sites such as the Baba Vida Fortress and New Europe Bridge and help you discover places known only to locals such as “Naked” Island. Belogradchik Just over 50 km (30 miles) south of Vidin is the town of Belogradchik, of wondrous rock and fortress fame. For a bird’s-eye view of the Belogradchik Rocks and the ancient Kaleto Fortress (also known as Belogradchik For- tress), as well as Vidin’s major sights, rent a hot-air balloon ride with Adventure Center Belogradchik. Oryahovo Beautiful turn-of-the-century architecture in downtown Oryahovo bears witness to the town’s commercial and cultural importance at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Your exploration of this Danubian gem of a town won’t be complete without a visit to the Oryahovo History Museum. There you will learn about the town’s beginnings in Antiquity and its transformations over the centuries. Through the museum’s Echo of the Centuries initiative, you will get a taste of me- dieval life in the area: guided archery practice is offered to visitors to the Rock, a medieval fortress managed by the museum. To learn about the life and work of one of Bul- garia’s most beloved composers (of “Danube Horo” fame), be sure to pay a visit to the Diko Iliev Museum, which is a part of the Oryahovo History Museum complex.
Vidin Bulgaria’s northwesternmost city, Vidin, boasts centuries of history: it was in turn an ancient Celtic settlement, a fortified Roman town, one of the main cities in the medieval Bulgarian state, and the center of Osman Paz- vantoglu’s breakaway state at the end of the eighteenth century. Nowadays, the city is home to Bulgaria’s best-preserved medieval fortress, Baba Vida, Pazvantoglu’s mosque and library, many old Orthodox churches, the Vidin Synagogue, and a number of grand nineteenth- and twenti- eth-century residences. To make the most of your visit, pick up a guide from the Regional History Museum in Vidin and follow one of the suggested routes, or hire an escorted tour. You can also explore Vidin and its environs by
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