Botevgrad is part of the Sofia region and one of the cities that doesn't seem to be talked about enough. The city is more than suitable for a weekend tourism, during which you will be able to visit both traditional tourist sites and not so much in the area. Let's see which are the 5 places that are worth your time…
1. The clock tower
This is perhaps the biggest emblem of the city and the thing by which you will certainly distinguish Botevgrad, because this tower is the tallest clock tower in Bulgaria. The site is included in the list of the 100 national tourist sites in our country. The 30-meter tower impresses with rare baroque elements and particularly impressive frescoes. Built as early as 1866, the tower has retained its function – namely the working clock!
2. Monument to Hristo Botev
No matter how clichéd it sounds, in order to have a future you need to know your history well, and what could be better than taking your children to the monument of one of the icons in Bulgarian history and charging yourself with a dose of revolutionary spirit? Hristo Botev, our poet, revolutionary and national hero, is a shrine. The city bears the names Samundjievo and Orhanie, until in 1934 it was renamed in honor of the hero who shed his blood for the homeland.
3. Historical Museum
Historical museums remain our trademark, but this is because the history of Bulgaria is really rich and there is something to learn in every part of the country! The museum in Botevgrad has collected over 15,000 exhibits, including household tools and tools. In this museum you will also find a marble slab with the image of a Thracian horseman. Materials testifying to life on earth centuries ago are stored here.
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4. Monument "Ossuary of the Both Chetniks"
Only a few kilometers from Botevgrad, in the village of Skravena, a unique monument of its kind has been established. The ossuary preserves the heads of Chetniks who lost their lives near the village of Lyuti Brod. In the year of the April Uprising - 1876, the local population brought the heads with their own hands and buried them in the church yard, and later they were moved here. The facts eloquently testify to that unshakable spirit of our ancestors.
5. Monastery "St. 40 Martyrs”
The monastery in the village of Vrachesh, not far from Botevgrad, was a literary center, a cell school and a nunnery back in time. The nature in which it is hidden makes the setting even more pleasant. Here you will not only immerse yourself in the historical events, but you will also feel notes of coolness, calmness, silence. Escape from reality is guaranteed here!
