Hundreds of agriculture machines blocked for 2 hours the traffic to the Danube Bridge border crossing at Ruse and to the crossing to Romania at Kardam. Protesters also closed the ports of Silistra and Vidin. Farmers from Romania joined the blockade in..
The first cruise ship on the Danube for the tourist season docked on March 20 in the Vidin port . Nearly 150 American and Japanese tourists are traveling on board the luxurious "Viking Lif". They first visited the unique Belogradchik rocks and the..
We usually talk about northwestern Bulgaria as the poorest region, not just in this country, but also in the whole of EU. However, it turns out that in the most important sphere for the progress of a society, events are taking place that in the long..
10 days after the start of this year's edition of "Dunav Ultra" cycling challenge, all participants have covered the 740-kilometer distance from the town of Vidin to the Black Sea coast at Durankulak. This year a total of 160 cyclists covered the..
Drought, which has swept across Europe, is a growing concern for Bulgarians living along the Danube. The low water level of the river is causing extreme losses to shipping. Hundreds of self-propelled and nonself-propelled vessels are waiting in..
A total of 160 cyclists from all over Bulgaria and from Romania are setting out from the town of Vidin under the motto “The river, Dobrudzha and the sea”, on August 27 and 28 along a 700-km. long route – from the Northernmost points of Bulgaria at..
The queue of trucks waiting to cross Danube Bridge 2 near Vidin - Kalafat already exceeds 10 kilometers of length, BTA reports. Drivers are forced to wait for 16-18 hours. Crossing the bridge itself takes less than 5 minutes, while checks at the border..
At the height of summer, let us take a look at the national road network, though not the thoroughfares leading to the seaside resorts in the environs of Varna but at the region of the town of Vidin. Once the capital of the Tsardom (Kingdom) of..
Located near the Vraska Chuka border crossing, Kula is the northwesternmost Bulgarian town. Everyone who passes through Kula takes a break in the central part to see the most popular site of the town – the old fortress tower which gave the name..
The longest cave in northwestern Bulgaria, Bashovichki Pech, where fossil remains of cave animals have been found, is endangered due to a construction site in its immediate vicinity. For 10 years, speleologists who study it are fighting for its..
