Location
The Razgrad municipality is situated along the valley of the Beli Lom River in the direction southeast - northwest, 60 km away from Rousse, 130 km away from Varna, 55 km away from Shoumen and 36 km away from Targovishte.
Razgrad has for many centuries been a natural crossroads, crossed by important road arteries, connecting Central Europe with the Black Sea region and Asia. The first class road Rousse - Varna and a railway line, which are the shortest strategic connection between the Danube and the Black Sea, pass through the municipality's administrative centre.

History
The archaeologists have not determined Razgrad's birth date with precision yet. It is only certain that people have inhabited the picturesque valley of the Beli Lom River, cutting the town in two, since ancient time. The three prehistoric settlement mounds in the town's environs testify to that. The thirty burial mounds and the archaeological finds in the Hissarlaka area prove that there was a busy settlement there as early as the ancient Thracians' time.
Centuries later, the Romans built upon the ruins of the Thracian settlement the strategic town Abritus Fortress, whose name was connected with their bloody battle with the Goths in 251, in which Emperor Derius Traianus himself was killed. The 835 gold coins (4 kg) from the 5th century are a remnant of that civilization. This is the largest gold coin treasure in Bulgaria. The local historical museum also possesses the Golden Pegasus, the collective find of Thracian bronze relieves, etc.
The predecessor of Razgrad was the medieval Bulgarian settlement Hrasgrad of the 8th century, whose name it inherited. After the Ottoman Empire conquered Bulgaria at the end of c. 14, the invaders wrote the settlement's name as Hezargrad,  Hezezgrad or Hrazgrad, while the Bulgarians called it Razgrad. There are two cultural monuments from the time of the Ottomans in Razgrad - the  “Ibrahim Pasha” mosque (1616), -a work of the local Bulgarians' building genius, and the Clock Tower, which is a symbol of the town. The tower was built in 1764 by Master Todor Tonchev from the village of Dourcha in the Tryavna region. It was restored twice - in 1864 and in 1998.
The bronze sculpture “Momina Cheshma” (The Lass' Fountain) and the temple “Sveti Nikolay Choudotvorets” (St. Nicolas the Miracle-Worker) are also unique cultural monuments.

Tourism
The town has its rest objects, of which especially important are the rest zones in the Pchelina area, the youth park and the town park. Specific rest objects are the dam lakes, which are the citizens' favourite places for fishing and rest.
The attractive tourist objects situated on the municipality's territory - the Voden hunting reserve, the Pchelina area, the archaeological complex Sboryanovo and the Sveshtarska Grobnitsa (a sepulchre) in it, the remains of the antique town of Abritus and the Ethnographical Museum in the village of Pobit Kamak - are a potential for attracting investments into tourism, which is not a traditional branch of the region's economy.

Source: bulgaria.domino.bg