Kozloduy is a town in North-Western Bulgaria. It is in Vratsa province and is situated on the bank of the Danube river. The town is the second biggest after Vratsa in the region and is administrative centre of Kozloduy Municipality.
Kozloduy is in the Danube valley, in the fertile granary of Bulgaria called Zlatia. Opposite the town is the second biggest island in the country. The town has an important economic meaning because of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. After Kozloduy are the towns of Byala Slatina and Mezdra.
The population of the town (15000) is employed mostly by the functioning nuclear plant. In Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant two of the six nuclear reactors are still working. The population is mostly bulgarian.
The earliest official data shows that Kozloduy was populated in the XVI century.
For centuries Thracians, Slavs, and Bulgarians have been living on this bank of the river Danube who create their own way of life and culture. Later on the big Roman roadway along the Danube passed through these places. The remains of the Roman castella (i.e. castles) Magura piatra (or Regianum), Camistrum and Augusta testify to this. On 17 May 1876 Hristo Botev's detachment landed at Kozloduy on the Radetski steamer.
Sightseeing:
- The national museum “The Radetzki Streamer”
- House of energetics
- ”Hristo Botev” community centre