Shipka

Football Club Asenovets are a Bulgarian association football club based in Asenovgrad, Plovdiv Province, currently playing in the South-East Third League, the third level of Bulgarian football.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Асеновград and Паисий Хилендарски.

Асеновград

Railway station

Photo: Phil Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Асеновград is a railway station, which is situated 540 metres northeast of Shipka.

Паисий Хилендарски

Library

Photo: Милена Марковска, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Паисий Хилендарски is a library, which is situated 1 km east of Shipka.

Asen's Fortress, identified by some researchers as Petrich, is a medieval fortress in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains, 2 to 3 kilometres south of the town of Asenovgrad, on a high rocky ridge on the left bank of the Asenitsa River. Asen’s Fortress is situated 2½ km south of Shipka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Asenovgrad and Gonda voda.

Asenovgrad

Photo: Egunt07, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Asenovgrad is a city of 50,000 in South-Central Bulgaria, under the slopes of the Rhodope Mountains, not far from Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city.