Get to know the sights of Ruse and get a feel for its past. The route will take you through the places that are of key importance to the historical past of Ruse. You will learn what it was like to live at that time and how Ruse developed in the past.
Sites:
The Pantheon of the Bulgarian National Revivalists
The Monument of Stefan Karadzha
The Urban Lifestyle Museum
The house-museum "Baba Tonka"
The house-museum "Zahari Stoyanov"
The Catholic Church "St. Paul of the Cross"
The Trading House "Canetti"
The Roman Fortress "Sexaginta Prista"
The Pantheon of the Bulgarian National Revivalists is a national monument-ossuary located in the city of Ruse. It was built according to a project by architect Nikola Nikolov and was opened on February 28, 1978. 39 famous Bulgarians are buried there, including Lyuben Karavelov, Zahari Stoyanov, Stefan Karadzha, Panayot Hitov, Baba Tonka, Nikola Obretenov, Panayot Volov, Angel Kanchev, and others.
Working hours:
09:00 – 12:00 and 12:30 – 17:30 (no day off)
The monument to Stefan Karadzha in Ruse was inaugurated on August 12, 1968, at the place where the revolutionary's gallows were erected in 1868. The monument was created on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the crossing of the detachment of Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha across the Danube. The authors of the monument are the sculptors Georgi Radulov and Nikola Terziev, and the architect of the project is Belcho Petrov.
It is also popularly known as the House of Calliope. It is located in a building built in 1864. According to legend, the house was given to the beautiful Calliope (Katerina Kalisch), wife of the Prussian consul Maurice Kalisch, by the governor of the Danube Vilayet, Midhat Pasha, who was in love with her.
Working hours:
09:00 – 12:00 and 12:30 – 17:30 (no day off)
The Baba Tonka Museum is a key exhibition for understanding and presenting the Bulgarian Revival and the role of the city of Ruse in the processes of national maturation. Its realization presents the contribution of the Obretenovi family and Baba Tonka in the implementation of the tasks of the Revival - a movement for an independent church, education, and revolutionary struggle.
Working hours:
09:30 – 12:00 and 12:30 – 18:00 (no day off)
The main focus of the first part of the exhibition is the biography of Zahari Stoyanov. The museum story shows interior reconstructions of an abadji workshop and a community center "Zora". The display cases display items and printed matter that belonged to Zahari Stoyanov, as well as to his daughter, Zaharinka, born months after his death. The second part of the house-museum presents the world described by the Chronicler of the April Uprising and modern Bulgaria.
Working hours:
09:00 – 12:00 and 12:30 – 17:30 (no day off)
"St. Paul of the Cross" is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Ruse. The cathedral houses the oldest preserved organ in Bulgaria, installed here in 1907. It has a romantic sound and is the only one with a pneumatic mechanism in Southeast Europe.
One of the great prides of Ruse is that it is the birthplace of Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. On Slavyanska Street, one of his family's houses still stands today. The trading house, established in 1892, bears the name "Polikar and Canetti".
"Sexaginta Prista" or "Port of the Sixty Ships" is an ancient Roman fortress. It has been established that the castel gets its name in connection with the Dacian Wars of Emperor Domitian from the end of the 1st century.
Working hours:
09:00 – 12:00 and 12:30 – 17:30 (no day off)
