Durostorum-Drastar Fortress

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Le château en bref

Beneath the streets of Silistra, on the banks of the Danube, two thousand years of fortifications lie one atop the other: those of Durostorum, a Roman camp and then town where the XI Legion Claudia was stationed, and those of Drastar, one of the great centres of medieval Bulgaria. The only major Roman city included within the Bulgarian khans' state, Drastar hosted a Danubian palace of the rulers in the 9th century and then, in the 10th century, the seat of the Bulgarian patriarchate. Rescue excavations carried out by the regional museum have revealed the inner enceinte, a late antique outer enceinte discovered in 2015, towers, churches and a patriarchal cathedral. These remains, protected within the Durostorum-Drastar-Silistra archaeological and architectural reserve, are discovered in fragments across the town, while a model at the museum reconstructs the whole.