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 Asen’s Fortress.

Асеновград

Railway station

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

Church of the Holy Mother of God

Church

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The Church of the Holy Mother of God is the popular name of a medieval Eastern Orthodox church located in Asen's Fortress. It lies near Asenovgrad in the Rhodope Mountains of Plovdiv Province, south central Bulgaria. Church of the Holy Mother of God is situated 2½ km south of Shipka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Asenovgrad and Ruen.

Asenovgrad

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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.