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Pleven is a historical town situated in the central Danubian plain of the Vit River. It is 174 km from Sofia and 35 km from Lovech.
Pleven quickly developed after the Russian-Turkish War during 1877-1878 with railway lines connecting it to Sofia and Varna being built. It is currently the seventh largest town in Bulgaria.
Most of the attractions here relate to the Russian-Turkish War of Liberation with about 200 monuments to the various battles. There is a Mausoleum dedicated to the Russian and Romanian soldiers killed during the war in the centre of Pleven close to the Museum of Liberation. The Pleven Epopee 1877 was created in honour of the one hundredth anniversary of the Pleven Epopee and is situated on top of the hill overlooking the town. The Victory monument is also on a hill next to the Vit river. The Town Museum of History situated in the centre was built in honour of the local citizens who died in the Serbian-Bulgarian war in 1885.
If monuments are not your thing then it well worth a visit to the beautiful and unique Kailuka Park which is on the southern outskirts of town in the valley of the Tuchenitsa river.
There are excellent transport links in Pleven with regular buses to Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo, Lovech, Troyan, Levski and numerous other small settlements. The central bus station is on Republika Square and the railway station which operates the Sofia-Gorna Oriahovitsa-Varna line is next to it.
Dolni Dupnik is a town 15 km. to the west of Pleven where there is natural gas and the greatest oil field deposit in Bulgaria. It is surrounded by three natural lakes and it is great place for water sports, sailing and fishing.
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