Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 8 – From Plovdiv⁩ to Vidin

Blue sky and sunshine again! Great to continue our trip towards the border town of Vidin at the Danube river.

On the 6 after Anton

Somewhere in ‎⁨Gorna Malina⁩

On the 112 after Monatana

But if I tell you….

Still on the 112

Still on the 112

Somewhere in a small town

Under the A2

Really?

Outside of Lom

Vidin

Vidin is about 1100 years old and was founded by Celtic settlers. The settlement evolved into a Roman fortified town. For a short time, it was occupied by Hungarians till the Ottomans took over.

In Vidin at the Dunabe

First the 1€ shops opens and if the house is lucky one fine day money poors in and it gets renovated

This one was more lucky – look quite good from the outside!

Another war memorial

Forward!

The Istanbul Gate or Stambol Kapiya

Thank you British Embassy!

Perfect light from the sunset

He looks sad

Monument at the riverfront

Head to the wall – water in the mouth!

Art in the park

Baba Vida

Probably the only entierly preserved medieval castle in Bulgaria

The Vidin Synagogue, deserted after Jewish emigration to Israel in 1940

Construction started in 1894 and it was Bulgaria’s second largest synagogue

The local community had flourished for more than five centuries after its arrival from Spain in the fifteenth century.

Old and new

A Mosque tower

Cathedral of St Demetrius. The construction of the cathedral was commenced in 1885. It is one of the biggest and most beautiful Bulgarian Orthodox cathedrals. Designed by Bulgarian and Austro-Hungarian architects and Italian engineers it mixes Western and Orthodox influences. The turret clock was built by the Munich clockmaker Mannhardt and it has been working without a fault since 1900 – German quality!