More recently Kozlodui has become notorious as the site of Bulgaria`s first and only nuclear power station, built with Soviet help in the 1970s.
The town is related with the revolutionary Hristo Botev who assembled two hundred volunteers from the Bulgarian emigre community in Romania who boarded the Austrian steamer Radetzky disguised as market-gardeners hijacked the vessel and disembarked at Kozlodui under the banner "Liberty or Death".
Sights: There is a monument near the small harbour commemorating the "Landing of 1876".