History: The outskirts of the village of Upper Wadi inhabited since ancient times by the Thracian societies. Thracians founded the village on the banks of the Danube in the locality Ledenika - west of the current village. They have lived there during the Bronze and Iron ages. In the region are found two bronze fasteners for clothes (fibula) dated from the VII century BC and a Silver Treasure with 150 Roman republican denar, accidentally exhumed in 1967 In I century BC, due to still unknown reasons, the settlement was abandoned, but later was inhabited again.
Landmarks of Gorni Vadin village: - Memorial of drowned Bulgarian soldier from Balkan war which is located at Danube river dike; - Monument at center of the village; - Two Thracian mounds. - Several fountains and mineral springs.