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REGION
SILISTRA
• Area Silistra
• Alfatar
• Tutrakan
• Srebarna |
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SILISTRA
Location and transport accessibility:
The town of Silistra is located at about 20 meters above
the sea level. Silistra is on the right (Bulgarian) bank
of the Danube River. It is 442km and 122km. north – east
of Sofia and Rousse respectively, 113 km north of
Shoumen and 143km north – west of Varna. The town is
district center.
There is a bus and railway transport in the town of
Silistra, which connect the town with the rest of the
country. There are regular bus lines to Rousse, Razgrad,
Shoumen, Dobrich, Varna and other smaller towns and
villages in the district. The bus station (+359
86/23418, 23997) and the railway station (+359 86/26813)
are located next to each other in the industrial zone.
The town is the final railway station on the local
railway line Samuil – Silistra. There is regular public
bus transport.
The reserve of Srebarna, one of Bulgaria's most
important wetlands, is situated close to the Danube
about 16km to the west of the town of Silistra on Route
23. The Srebarna Biosphere Reserve has the highest
international nature protection status: it is included
in the UNESCO List for Protection of the World Cultural
and Natural Heritage (1983), it is recognized also as a
Ramsar Site under the Ramsar Convention for Protection
of Wetlands (1975), it is a part of the World-Wide
Network for Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO (1977), and it
is an Important Bird Area (IBA) according to the
Birdlife International Programme.
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