Top Things to do in Ruse
Top 10 Things to do in Ruse, Bulgaria
Discover the best top things to do in Ruse, Bulgaria including Freedom Square, Danube River, Orlova Chuka Cave, Eco Museum & Aquarium, Sveta Troitsa Cathedral, Rousse Museum of History, National Museum of Transport and Communication, The Dohodno Zdanie, Sexaginta Prista Fortress and Museum, Pantheon of National Revival Heroes.
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1. Freedom Square
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 149 reviews
Reviewed By Andrew E
We decided to leave the tourists today and explore the town while geocaching and happened to make our way here. Great spot to stop, relax and watch everything around (not to mention take a few photos).
2. Danube River
Overall Ratings
4 based on 129 reviews
Reviewed By KatielouAustralia - Hobart, Australia
A joy to cruise on the Danube and get to visit this amazing place. The scenery is fantastic and ever changing with little villages dotted along the shore
3. Orlova Chuka Cave
Overall Ratings
5 based on 40 reviews
Reviewed By AlinaLutu - Bucharest, Romania
1. The guide is very smart and funny. He spoke in Bulgarian and French with us and often used some word in Romanian.
2. The temperature is 14•c constant so you might need to have a jacket.
3. The road is very good and clear. You have to reach Dve Mogili (30km from Ruse). From here to the cave you will have another 9km. You will reach a little forest and you can park you're car there.
4. Price : 6 leva(BGN) for adults and 3 for students. No extra money for photos.
5. The last tour is at 17:00.
6. It's a beautiful cave, the second in Bulgaria, discovered in 1941, all white because is chalkstone cretacic formed.
4. Eco Museum & Aquarium
Overall Ratings
5 based on 30 reviews
Reviewed By 77LuluE
What a great experience. Excellent museum of ecology, conservation and nature. Some wonderful interactive sections teaching kids through hands-on activities. There are different sections in the museum: birds (including vulture concervation and migration), mammals (including section on bats and prehistorics like mammoth), ecology and some artefacts on the top floor. Definitely worth a visit!
5. Sveta Troitsa Cathedral
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 34 reviews
Reviewed By fizzy1991 - Nashville, Tennessee
Because of the restrictions that the Ottoman's put on Christian church this was build mostly underground. It is beautiful and peaceful. We came during a service and it was packed with local's not tourist, which was nice to see. There are a lot of beggar's outside the church but they were harmless.
6. Rousse Museum of History
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 28 reviews
Reviewed By Gabriel H - Bellaire, Texas, United States
Bulgaria has a network of regional museums and this one, in Ruse, is one of 11 such regional museums. Housed in the neoclassical Battenberg Palace, built in 1882, the museum was established in 1904. Ruse being the fifth largest city in Bulgaria, the Regional Historical Museum has a surprisingly extensive collection, said to contain over 140,000 items. This part of Eastern Europe has been continuously inhabited for millennia, so the archaeological findings are extensive and cover multiple historical time periods. The collection at this museum starts with prehistoric objects, tools, weapons and pottery. Developing art skills are shown in gold and silver platters, vases and containers. Remains of Thracian, Roman and Byzantine civilizations make room for Ottoman and more recently, modern Bulgarian cultures. all these have left important traes of their presence and dominance. Satrting with the ROmans, there are traces of visual arts: ceramics, frescoes, sculptures and clothing accessories. Coins from the multiple dominant governments are brought together in cogent order. Armor, shields, weapons of all sorts complete the military history, while books, documents and other permanent witnesses to history take their rightful place.
7. National Museum of Transport and Communication
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 32 reviews
Reviewed By מוטי א - Rehovot, Israel
the woman guid was probably sleeping until she apeared at the balcon on 2nd floor and looked as we are disturbing her. we paid for a tour and after the she started explaining - we took 1 picture of 2 old trains, and then she said we must pay more for taking pictures of the other trains !!!! amazed and angry we left the museum at the same moment
8. The Dohodno Zdanie
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 14 reviews
Reviewed By ELear - Ancona, Italy
This is the neo-classical building which takes up almost all of one side of Svoboda Square, and it's extraordinarily successful. Big but not overpowering, rich but not pompous, well-proportioned, pleasing, civilised and welcoming, and perfectly fitted to its main function as the home of Ruse National Theatre.
(For some reason that I didn't quite understand it's known as the "Profitable Building". A guide could doubtless explain.)
They have a full and varied programme. To know what's on, ask the Tourist Office.
9. Sexaginta Prista Fortress and Museum
Overall Ratings
4 based on 17 reviews
10. Pantheon of National Revival Heroes
Overall Ratings
4 based on 26 reviews
Reviewed By Gabriel H - Bellaire, Texas, United States
The Pantheon holds the remains of revolutionaries who gave their lives during the war of independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877-78. Over 450 revolutionaries are said to be resting here, in a Pantheon completed in 1978, for the 100th anniversary of the revolution. Adjacent to the Pantheon, the visitor will find a museum with documents and historical items, and a Christian chapel, dedicated to St. Paisius of Hilendar. The Pantheon and Museum are open Sunday through Thursday, between 9:00 am and noon, and again from 1:00 pm through 5:30 pm. A token entrance fee is charged.
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