The House of Tsvyatko Smolyanov

One of the houses-museums of the Apostle of Freedom - Vasil Levski is located in the southern part of the Danube port town. In the house of the Smolyanov family Levski was given refuge more than once, and it was from Nikopol that most of his journeys in search of and planning for the long-awaited Liberation started, both to Vlashko area and within the improved Bulgarian lands. Levski's hiding place from the Turkish soldiers is preserved to this day, and the house has been turned into an ethnographic museum.

The house of Tsvyatko Smolyanov was built in a typical pre-Revolutionary style, and it also contains the tombstone of Bishop Philip Stanislavov. The highly educated bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Nikopol, enlightener and teacher, was one of the scolars of Bulgaria, more than a century before Levski passed through these places, and he, however, preferred the peaceful path, that of spiritual growth. In 1651, in Rome, he published the first printed book with elements of New Bulgarian language.