SECOND STOP
- Walking tour of Vidin’s cobblestone streets, including a visit
to Baba Vida fortress.
Vidin has two well-preserved medieval fortresses, Baba Vida and Kaleto,
and many old Orthodox churches such as St Pantaleimon, St Petka
(both 17th century), and St Greatmartyr Dimitar (Dimitrius) (19th
century), The Vidin Synagogue (1894), the Osman Pazvantoğlu Mosque and library, the late 18th-century Turkish ruler of north-western Bulgaria, the Krastata Kazarma of 1798, and a number of old Renaissance buildings.
Another tourist attraction in the Vidin area is the town of Belogradchik, famous for its unique rock formations, the Belogradchik Rocks and the medieval Belogradchik Fortress and also the nearby Magura Cave with its prehistoric cave paintings.
