North Central Bulgaria

District VelikoTarnovo - Svishtov Municipality

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Svishtov

The Northern Part of Veliko Tarnovo District

The municipality of Svishtov is part of Veliko Tarnovo District; located in the North Central Bulgarian Region.

The town of Svishtov is a great historic and cultural center of Bulgaria. This is the town with one of the oldest traditions in education in Bulgaria – here is the Academy of Economics “D.A Tsenov” still being one of the most preferable places for young graduates in their higher university education.Svishtov is situated on the right bank of Danube River at a high terrace. This is the most southern point of the river.

Cities and villages in Svishtov municipality:  Town of Svishtov, Village of Alekovo, Village of Aleksandrovo, Village of Bulgarsko Slivovo, Village of Vardim, Village of Gorna Studena, Village of Delyanovtsi, Village of Dragomirovo, Village of Kozlovets, Village of Morava, Village of Ovcha mogila, Village of Oresh, Village of Sovata, Village of Hadjidimitrovo, Village of Tsarevets, Village of Chervena.

The town and its surroundings have preserved great number of archaeological, art and architectural monuments of culture.

• The Town Museum of History considered one of the museums in Bulgaria (1856).
• The Ethnographic Museum.
• The Aleko Konstantinov House-Museum, in which the heart of the great Bulgarian is preserved in a glass vessel.
• The Holy Trinity Cathedral (built in 1867), in the centre of the town, is the most interesting architectural monument. It was the work of the great Bulgarian builder of the Revival period Koliu Ficheto. The citizen of Svishtov Nikolay Pavlovich painted the icons. The temple suffered a lot during the earthquake in 1977 but in 1992 its restoration was completed.
• The ancient St. Dimitur Church (1640) and St. St. Peter and Pavel Church (1644). Bulgarian masters erected the Clock Tower (1760, in the centre of the town).
• The School of Hristaki Pavlovich (1815).
• The House of Peace, in which in 1791 an Austrian-Turkish Separation Peace Treaty was signed.
• The old Revival houses.
• The Pametnitsite Park (the Monuments) is situated at the distance of 4 km east of the town in Tekirdere. The Russian-Turkish War of Liberation began here and in the place where the Russian troops disembarked a big commemorative park with white marble and granite monuments, military attributes of that time, was created.
• The remains of the ancient town of Nove (1st century) and the  Medieval town of Stuklen are located in the immediate proximity, at the distance of 1 km east in the Kaleto area.
• Pisanite Kamuni (Inscribed Stones) an area 2 km east of Svishtov, where articles and tools of the early Paleolithic period were found.
• The Danubian island of Vardim is situated at about some 10 km east of the town, which is the third biggest Bulgarian island (after Belene and Kozlodui). It was declared a natural reserve due to the birds’ colonies of great cormorants, herons and others. The well-known Vardim oak tree grows here, too.
• Near the mouth of the Yantra River, in the proximity of the village of Krivina that Bulgarian and German archaeologist found the ruins of the Limmes Kastel (fortress) of Yatrus.

Economy and investments

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Talking about economy we could not pass the Bulgarian Danube Port of Svishtov which recently has received investment in new port facilities. This investment is going to allow the processing of containers of all varieties, thus removing the major obstacle before the container trade at the Bulgarian Danube town.

With the investment in the new port facilities, Svishtov will be come a serious competitor to the Bulgarian Black Sea Port of Varna, but especially to the Greek port of Thessaloniki.

However, with the new container facilities and the shorter distance it would be more profitable to transport goods to Sofia and Central Bulgaria through Svishtov.

The Danube port town is also hoping to become an international transportation center for the Republic of Kosovo, Macedonia, and other states from the former Yugoslavia.

The chemical industry is well developed. Here is located one of the biggest factories in Bulgarian chemical industry “Sviloza” Enterprise - production of cellulose and paper.