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Monument to Tsar Alexander II Osvoboditel
This statue of Russian Tsar Alexander II and his horse was a thank-you for freeing Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.
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Center for Contemporary Art
The Center for Contemporary Art is housed on in the Chifte Banya, an old Turkish bath, and hosts contemporary works.
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City Museum
The City Museum features local traditional costumes, ceramics and jewellery, plus early-20th-century photos of Melnik.
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City Historical Museum
The diverse collection here includes Roman statuary, medieval pottery and vintage photographs of the town from the early 1900s.
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Slaveikov House
The Slaveikov House-Museum is dedicated to Petko Slaveikov and his son Pencho, renowned poets who lived here for many years.
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Sv Cyril & Methodius Cathedral
Completed in 1907, the city’s main church boasts an especially fine, intricately carved iconostasis and colourful murals.
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City Art Gallery
The City Art Gallery, another branch of the State Gallery of Fine Arts, holds small, temporary exhibitions of abstract art.
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Church of Sveti Petr & Pavel
The St Peter & St Paul Church, located just past the bridge, contains fragments of murals from the 14th to 17th centuries.
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Kurshum Mosque
Further up ul Vasil Levski, a small park contains the disused and closed Kurshum Mosque, built in 1485 during the Ottoman occupation.
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Sveti Velikomachenik Dimitâr
Vidin’s main cathedral, Sveti Velikomachenik Dimitâr , has benefited from partial restoration work, and has nice frescoes and icons.
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Icon Gallery
Beside the Church of Sveti Konstantin & Elena, this small museum has a sublime display of icons from the 15th century onwards.
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Velyanov’s House
Velyanov’s House features elaborately painted scenes and woodcarvings from the ‘Bansko School’ of carving, icon and fresco painting.
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Roman Forum
Just down the steps at the overpass near pl Tsentralen, ruins of the Roman Forum are still being excavated; peer over the fence along the road.
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Artin
Artin is an equally interesting private gallery in a charming old mansion nearby, which shows the latest work of some of the best-known local artists.
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Sveti Nikolai Church
The pretty Sveti Nikolai Church, right in the city centre, is worth a visit for its saintly murals. It’s always busy, and is a popular venue for weddings.
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Roman Thermae
The well-preserved ruins of Varnas 2nd-century-AD Roman Thermae are the largest in Bulgaria, although only a small part of the original complex still stands.
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Park
This small park that stands between the train station and the central square features a placid pond lined with weeping willows. You can rent paddle boats here.
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Sveta Paraskeva Church
A fine example of 13th-century architecture is the Sveta Paraskeva Church, which has only one nave and one apse. The building is now occupied by an art gallery.
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Museum of History
Housed within the Archaeological Museum, this museum chronicles the 1885 Unification of Bulgaria through documents, photographs and belongings of the protagonists.
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Earth and Man Museum
This rather old-fashioned museum is dedicated to geology, with two floors worth of minerals, crystals, ores and the like. There are some big, impressive geodes on show.
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