Haskovo, Bulgaria · Europe
Haskovo is worth a stop: 25 minutes from Dimitrovgrad, 26km from Perperikon.
Haskovo is in Bulgaria, with about 65,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Dimitrovgrad, about 13 km away.
Haskovo (Bulgarian: Хасково [ˈxaskovo]) is a city in the region of Northern Thrace in southern Bulgaria and the administrative centre of the Haskovo Province, not far from the borders with Greece and Turkey. According to Operative Program Regional Development of Bulgaria, the urban area of Haskovo is the seventhRead more
largest in Bulgaria and has a population of 184,731 inhabitants. Haskovo has a population of 64,564 as of 2022, making it Bulgaria's 12th largest city.
The first settlement found in Haskovo is from circa 5000 BC. Haskovo celebrated its 1,000th anniversary as a town in 1985. To mark the event, a new clock tower was erected in the centre of the town.
Haskovo Cove in Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, is named after Haskovo.
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Within an hour or so of Haskovo: Perperikon (26 km), Devil's Bridge (Dyavolski Most) (51 km), Asen's Fortress (57 km).
The nearest famous roads are Shipka Pass, Trigrad Gorge and Troyan Pass (Beklemeto).
Haskovo is in Haskovo, Bulgaria, about 13 km from Dimitrovgrad.
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Full driving guide for Bulgaria3 notable places within an hour's drive.
ancient ruins
The largest megalithic complex in the Balkans: an entire city with palace, shrine and streets hewn from a rocky hilltop in the Eastern Rhodopes, occupied from 5000 BCE and linked by legend to an oracle of Dionysus.
26 km · about 30 min drive
bridge
Elegant 16th-century Ottoman arch bridge spanning the Arda River in a wild Rhodope gorge near Ardino, reached by a short mountain road: a legendary photo stop steeped in folklore.
51 km · about 60 min drive
castle
A medieval fortress ruin with a surviving 13th-century church on a rock spur above the Chepelare river, beside the Asenovgrad–Smolyan road.
57 km · about 65 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
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