The streets around Svoboda Square are lined with Neo-Baroque and Neoclassical buildings, including the Dohodno Zdanie (Profit Building) and the Freedom Monument. The oldest building in town is the Holy Trinity Cathedral of 1632, while just outside the city lie the rock monastery of Basarbovo and the rock-hewn churches of Ivanovo. Ruse is also the birthplace of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Elias Canetti. Lying about 70 km south of Bucharest, it is the natural first stop in Bulgaria when travelling from Romania over the Danube Bridge.
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