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Popovo

Country
Bulgaria
State
Targovishte Province
City
Popovo
Type of Location
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Air

Airports nearest to Popovo are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Gorna Oryahovitsa Airport (distanced approximately 48 km)
Rousse Airport (distanced approximately 57 km)
Jambol Airport (distanced approximately 95 km)
Silistra Airport (distanced approximately 110 km)
Stara Zagora Airport (distanced approximately 120 km)

By Train

South of the city and district between Popovo sower goes railway Sofia - Varna.Popovo Railway Station is served by all trains.

By Bus

The local bus station is located in the city center and provides transport to the small settlements of the municipality and to city of Targovishte (36 km), Veliko Tarnovo (75 km), Ruse (75 km), Razgrad (35 km), Opaka (15 km), Gabrovo (115 km), Varna (175 km), Sofia (300 km) and other.Popovo the center of the bus lines that connect it as with most villages in the municipality and neighboring towns.Carriage of passengers to nearby cities is mainly from the former municipal transport company and a small private carriers.

By Road

Popov has a favorable geographic location in relation to major transport corridors in the country.Located in the middle of a triangle class roads closed by 5 (European route E85, Veliko Tarnovo - Rousse), 2 (European route E70, Varna - Shumen - Ruse) and 4 (European route E772, Veliko Tarnovo - Targovishte - Shumen - Varna).The nearest state border to the town is north of 77 km in Ruse.

Key places to visit
Popovo House of Culture, Summer Theatre, Popovo Historical Museum, Central Park Popovo, Popovski Mermaid Fair


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Places to Visit

Popovo House of Culture

Municipal House of Culture in Popovo place rich and diverse cultural activities throughout the municipality.There are numerous manifestations of artistic collectives to Home (folk dance group "Veselyache" dance group "Severnyatsi" Dance Formation "Charm" studio for classical and modern dance, vocal trio singing "Agra", vocal singing group "Antonia", workshop of literary art and children's singing group).Artistic groups for authentic songs and customs has to villages Sadina, Svetlen, Slavyanovo, Kardam and others.

Summer Theatre

Summer Theatre Popovo is a unique region of amphitheater facility, built on marshland that was transformed in the past to dump the city center.The facility was officially opened on 7 May 1966, the combining a cinema in the open theater scene for public appearances and concerts with dressing rooms and dressing rooms and miniigrishte for football on small doors.Unused and abandoned almost maintenance free, open-air theater back to new life after letting him in 1991 a concession to a private entrepreneur from the city and after the overhaul carried out in 2006 and 2007 have been restored stage seats for spectators the draining of adjacent land the establishment of the complex and others.

Popovo Historical Museum

Created as a museum collection in the library in the city in 1957, in 1991 granted the status of the historical museum.Today his exhibition was opened on 2 March 1995, the The museum now operating departments: Archaeology, Ethnology, Modern and Contemporary History and Art.The collection of the Museum stores total about 30 000 museum and the exhibition includes his now nearly 2500 a variety of subjects.The museum organizes regular conferences, most reports are collected in collections devoted to the past Popovski end.Initial sequence collections named "Popovo in the past" but by the autumn of 2009 was renamed "Popovo past and future."

Central Park Popovo

The idea of creating an urban garden in Popovo was born in the early 20th century on 10 October 1902, the members of the newly Popovo region tourist company "Sakar Tepe" but fail to realize it.The initiative was launched by a bicycle company on 28 July 1907, the received by the Municipal Council 4 acres of municipal land in the area Dyollyuk in the southeastern part of town to the railroad to build a racetrack, which marks the beginning of the garden itself.

Popovski Mermaid Fair

one of the most famous fairs in northeastern Bulgaria gained its popularity again that after 1989, continuing a week, accompanied by many events and cultural events and a huge number of various stalls and fairground attractions.Held in "rusalian Sunday" (week), beginning with the feast of the Holy Spirit - the first Monday after Pentecost (50 days after Easter).Beginning of the fair is set in the first decade of the 20th century with the dedication of a fountain, believed to be curative, located within the City garden today.This is one of three events, along with Christmas and Easter that collects scattered in Bulgaria and abroad popovchani again in their hometown.

Right Time to Visit

June - September

Temperature

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