Banitsa, Vratsa Province
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Banitsa (Bulgarian: Баница) is a village in Vratsa Municipality, Vratsa Province, northwestern Bulgaria. As of 2005[update] its population is 1,328.
The great Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev was killed nearby.
Gallery
[edit]- Elementary school "Hristo Botev"
- Chitalishte "Svetlina"
- Church "Ascension of Jesus"
- The church belfry
- Old cross near the church entrance
- Memorial plaque to Vasil Levski's visit in early September 1872
- Memorial plaque to Georgi Dimitrov's visit on 15 April 1923
- Sculpture composition in the centre of the village