Dobrich

Worth seeing in and around Dobrich

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Dobrich Zoo

   Zoo Centre Dobrich, also known as the Nature and Animal Conservation Centre, is the first licensed zoo in Bulgaria. It is located in Dobrich, Bulgaria.

   1.2 km · zoo in Bulgaria · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Druzhba Stadium

   Stadion Druzhba is a football stadium in Dobrich, Bulgaria, built in the late 1950s. Donations amounting to about 87 million BGN covered the construction costs.

   1.3 km · stadium in Bulgaria · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Dobrich TV Tower

   Dobrich TV Tower is a 250-metre high TV tower built of reinforced concrete near Dobrich in Bulgaria. Dobrich TV Tower, which was designed by Petar Andreev, was completed in 1979 and has an observation deck open for tourists.

   2.4 km · tower · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

Ethnographic Complex Old Dobrich (east of the north half of the pedestrian main street). An area with several restored or reconstructed 19th century buildings, including an old clock tower, the history museum, artisan's workshops, etc.

1. 01
   Regional History Museum

   Adult: 3 лв, various discounts apply; guided tour in "foreign language": 10 лв.

2. 02
   Military Cemetery Memorial Complex

   Contains the dead from the Battle of Dobrich (1916).

3. 03
   Ethnographic House
4. 04
   Literary Museum Yordan Yovkov

   A modernist (if not brutalist) concrete-and-glass building, also known as the "House-Monument" (dom-pametnik), built in 1980 for the 100th anniversary of Yovkov's birth.

5. 05
   Museum-in-the-park
6. 06
   Monument to Asparuh

   A Communism-era monument to the founding ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire.

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Things to do

Football: FC Dobrudzha Dobrich were promoted in 2025 and now play soccer in First League, the top tier. Their Stadion Druzhba (capacity 12,000) is 1 km south of town centre. It's shared by Riltsi Dobrich and by Inter Dobrich, both in the third tier.

1. 01
   Skate

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Where to eat

1. 01
   Restaurant Lebed

   The name ("Swan") is explained by the location - overhanging the large pond in the city park.

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Getting to Dobrich

Airports

Varna (VAR), 37 km · Mihail Kogălniceanu (CND), 103 km · Burgas (BOJ), 114 km

Stations

Dobrich Air Base, 4.7 km

• Burgas → Dobrich

  121 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · лв16–21
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• Plovdiv → Dobrich

  296 km · quickest by road, 6h 5m · лв38–50
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• Sofia → Dobrich

  378 km · quickest by air, 5h 26m · лв120–180
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