{"id":8566,"date":"2018-03-20T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T08:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=8566"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:39:25","slug":"athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-8-from-plovdiv-to-vidin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-8-from-plovdiv-to-vidin\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 8 – From Plovdiv\u2069 to Vidin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blue sky and sunshine again! Great to continue our trip towards the border town of Vidin on the Danube River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"On <\/picture>
On the 6 after Anton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Somewhere <\/picture>
Somewhere in \u200e\u2068Gorna Malina\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Somewhere <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"On <\/picture>
On the 112 after Monatana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"But <\/picture>
But if I tell you….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Still <\/picture>
Still on the 112<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Still <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Still <\/picture>
Still on the 112<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Somewhere <\/picture>
Somewhere in a small town<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Somewhere <\/picture>
Under the A2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Really?\" <\/picture>
Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Outside <\/picture>
Outside Lom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vidin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"In <\/picture>
In Vidin at the Danube<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"First <\/picture>
First, the 1\u20ac shops open, and if the house is lucky, one fine day, money pours in and it gets renovated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Much <\/picture>
This one was more lucky – looks quite good from the outside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Another <\/picture>
Another war memorial<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Forward!\" <\/picture>
Forward!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The Istanbul Gate or Stambol Kapiya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Thank <\/picture>
Thank you, British Embassy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Perfect <\/picture>
Perfect light from the sunset<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"He <\/picture>
He looks sad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monument <\/picture>
Monument at the riverfront<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Detail\" <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Head <\/picture>
Head to the wall – water in the mouth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Art <\/picture>
Art in the park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Baba <\/picture>
Baba Vida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Probably <\/picture>
Probably the only entirely preserved medieval castle in Bulgaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The Vidin Synagogue, deserted after Jewish emigration to Israel in 1940<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
Construction started in 1894, and it was Bulgaria\u2019s second-largest synagogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The local community had flourished for more than five centuries after its arrival from Spain in the fifteenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Old <\/picture>
Old and new<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A <\/picture>
A Mosque tower<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cathedral <\/picture>
Cathedral of St Demetrius. The construction of the cathedral 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blue sky and sunshine again! Great to continue our trip towards the border town of Vidin on the Danube River. On the 6 after Anton Somewhere in \u200e\u2068Gorna Malina\u2069 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[716,224,720,722],"tags":[719,463,724,723],"class_list":["post-8566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-europe","category-plovdiv","category-vidin","tag-bulgaria","tag-europe","tag-plovdiv","tag-vidin"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/j.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/j.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14314,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions\/14314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}