City Art Hotel

Top choice in Ruse


City Art offers 19 artfully styled rooms with trendy colour schemes, giant headboards and upbeat philosophical quotations stencilled on the walls. The building is a renovated 19th-century hat-maker's shop on a quiet street near the centre. There's a Chinese restaurant, Bamboo, in the back courtyard.


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