Municipality Ivanovo

The Ivanovo municipality is located in North-Central Bulgaria in Rousse District. The Municipality consists of 13 villages with municiapl center village of Ivanovo. It is located at a distance of 20 km to the southwest of Rouse city. It is crossed by the following roads: road I-5/Е75 - Rousse - Istanbul/ Rousse - Sofia; road Rousse - Varna; railway road Rousse - Sofia; air traffic - Shtraklevo airport (Shtraklevo airport and the military airport are not in operation); waterway - the Danube River with the maintained port at Pirgovo village and with opportunities for establishing a port near the Stalpishte populated formation.
Archeological reserves: Rock monastery near Ivanovo village, and the Medieval town of Cherven. Ivanovo Rock Churches are under UNESCO protection. Museum collections: Svetlostruj, Shtraklevo village, and Village Revolt 1900, Trastenik village. The architectural monuments of local importance are 30 churches, buildings, fountains, etc. The other historic sites and monuments amount to over 200 monasteries, churches, necropolises, settlement mounds, monuments from the Russian -Turkish war 1877/78. Roussenski Lom Natural Park; Stalpishte Fish Farm Ornithological Area; Dikilitash protected area (Pobit Kamak) in Stalpishte populated formation.

2010-10-27 Shtruklevo becomes airport for low cost flights (Transport)

2009-08-20 Archaeologists discover an unique ancient grave near town Cherven (Culture)

2009-03-18 Rock-hewn churches near Ivanovo (Culture)

2008-10-27 Origin of found Templar cemetery near village of Nisovo will soon be revealed (Culture)

2008-10-14 Bulgarian copy of the Virgin Mary discovered in necropolis by the village of Nissovo (Culture)

2007-12-13 River Overflows, Floods 1000 Decares of Land in Bulgarian Village (Accidents)

2007-09-06 Rusenski Lom Nature Park (Travel)

ivanovo.rousse-bg.info (Ivanovo)

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