Danube & Ruse

Highlights

1. 1

   Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

   Chapels cut into a gorge wall, thirty metres above the river

   45 min–1.5 h

   Hans A. Rosbach · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
2. 2

   Rusenski Lom Nature Park

   A limestone canyon twenty kilometres from Ruse, full of cut rooms

   2–5 h

   Ymblanter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
3. 3

   St Paul of the Cross Cathedral

   Brick Gothic in Ruse, built for a parish of Austrians

   20–40 min

   S. Vasilev · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4. 4

   Basarbovo Monastery

   The only cave monastery in Bulgaria that still has monks in it

   30 min–1 h

   Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
5. 5

   Kaliopa House

   Viennese furniture, and the first grand piano brought to Bulgaria

   30–50 min

   Спасимир · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
6. 6

   National Transport Museum

   Bulgaria's first railway station, with the sultan's carriage in it

   40 min–1.3 h

   Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons