Sankt Peterburg Hotel Plovdiv
97 Bulgaria Blvd. Plovdiv, Plovdiv, 4000, Bulgaria
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Training session at International Fair, Old Town tour, GA meeting & Translation
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Oldest town in Europe and comparisons
... the 19th Century Ottoman period (sorry got overwhelmed with infomation and may have got confused), no building is the same. However there are many which are merely piles of rubble too!
A clumb up the hill to the citadel is well worth it for the view of the two hills which awaits, and after that meander back to the shopping street near to the main square and there's plenty to occupy you if you want to stock up on souvenirs or just sit at a cafe and people watch.
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Trip to the Bulgarian Countryside
... Final stop was Asen's Fortress (just a few minutes drive away from the monastery). The original plan was that we would hike this - thank goodness we didn't do this. The fortress is on top of a very steep mountain and the walk would've taken us at least 45 minutes! The view from the fortress was awesome (although during the hike up to the fortress from the parking lot I was thinking that it was very smart of me to purchase ...
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... and you can look down to see a perfect arched entranceway to a 500 seat stone theater. Very cool.
And that's not counting all the other stones, monuments, broken columns, and other ancient reminders that this was once a Roman city, built upon Philipopolis, a city founded by the father of Alexander the Great centuries earlier. Unfortunately, these are tagged a lot with grafitti.
At the first ruin I found, the largest one, ...
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