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Vratsa

Vratsa

Vratsa is a city of in . Built at the foot of a branch of the , it has one of the most scenic skylines in Bulgaria, and it's also the starting point for numerous natural features, most notably the Ledenika Cave, the Skaklya Waterfall and the Vrattsata Pass.
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  • Type: City with 60,900 residents
  • Description: city in Vratsa municipality, Vratsa oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Vratca” and “Vrattsa”
  • Postal code: 3000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tower of Kurt Pasha and Vratsa train station.

Castle
Photo: Eola, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also rendered as Kurt Pasha Tower or Kurtpashov Tower, is an Ottoman-era tower house in the town of Vratsa in northwest .

Railway station
Photo: L rachev, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Archaeological site
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The or Mogilanska mound is a burial mound in the center of Vratsa, . During excavations in 1965–66, 3 tombs were found in it, built of stone.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zgorigrad.

Village
Photo: Schaubia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Vratsa

Latitude
43.2028° or 43° 12′ 10″ north
Longitude
23.548° or 23° 32′ 53″ east
Population
60,900
Elevation
352 metres (1,155 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
BG VRA and BG VRE
Open location code
8GM56G3X+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31058197
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
725712
Wiki­data ID
Q189502
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Vratsa” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Vraca”
  • Arabic: “فراتسا”
  • Armenian: “Վրացա”
  • Asturian: “Vratsa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vratsa”
  • Belarusian: “Враца”
  • Belarusian: “Ураца”
  • Bengali: “ভ্রাসা”
  • Bulgarian: “Враца”
  • Bulgarian: “ГР.ВРАЦА”
  • Catalan: “Vraca”
  • Catalan: “Vratsa”
  • Cebuano: “Vratsa (kapital sa rehiyon sa Bulgaria)”
  • Cebuano: “Vratsa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤراتسا”
  • Chechen: “Враца”
  • Chinese: “弗拉察”
  • Church Slavic: “Враца”
  • Croatian: “Vraca”
  • Czech: “Vraca”
  • Danish: “Vratsa”
  • Dutch: “Vratsa”
  • Esperanto: “Vraca”
  • Estonian: “Vraca”
  • Finnish: “Vratsa”
  • French: “Vraca”
  • French: “Vratsa”
  • Galician: “Vratsa”
  • German: “Vratza”
  • German: “Wraza”
  • Greek: “Βράτσα”
  • Gujarati: “વ્રાત્સા”
  • Hebrew: “וראצה”
  • Hebrew: “ורצה”
  • Hindi: “व्रातसा”
  • Hungarian: “Vraca”
  • Indonesian: “Vratsa”
  • Irish: “Vratsa”
  • Italian: “Vraca”
  • Italian: “Vratsa”
  • Japanese: “ヴラツァ”
  • Kannada: “ವ್ರತ್ಸ”
  • Kazakh: “Vraca”
  • Kazakh: “Враца”
  • Kazakh: “ۆراتسا”
  • Korean: “브라차”
  • Latvian: “Vraca”
  • Lithuanian: “Vraca”
  • Macedonian: “Враца”
  • Malay: “Vratsa”
  • Marathi: “व्र्यास्टा”
  • Moksha: “Враца”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wratsa (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wratsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vratsa”
  • Ossetian: “Врацæ”
  • Ossetian: “Враца”
  • Persian: “وراتسا”
  • Polish: “Wraca”
  • Portuguese: “Vratsa”
  • Romanian: “Vraţa”
  • Romanian: “Vrața”
  • Romanian: “Vratsa”
  • Russian: “Вратца”
  • Russian: “Враца”
  • Scots: “Vratsa”
  • Serbian: “Vraca”
  • Serbian: “Враца”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vraca”
  • Silesian: “Wraca”
  • Sinhala: “ව්‍රස්ටා”
  • Slovak: “Vraca”
  • Slovenian: “Vraca”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وراتسا”
  • Spanish: “Vraca”
  • Spanish: “Vratsa”
  • Spanish: “Vratza”
  • Swedish: “Vratsa”
  • Tamil: “விராட்சா”
  • Tatar: “Вратса”
  • Telugu: “వ్రాట్సా”
  • Thai: “วรัทซา”
  • Turkish: “İvraca”
  • Turkish: “İvrace”
  • Turkish: “Vraça”
  • Turkish: “Vratsa”
  • Ukrainian: “Враца”
  • Urdu: “وراتسا”
  • Vietnamese: “Vratsa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vratsa”
  • Western Panjabi: “وراتسا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Vratsa”. Photo: Ultra green, CC BY-SA 1.0.