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Advantages: Beautiful Old Town, lots of history, the ice cream Disadvantages: Limited for people with mobility problems, poor service at times
Imagine a place older than Athens, older than Carthage, older than Rome; a place brimming with archaeological and historical treasures but that hardly gets any visitors in comparison with the others. Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second city, is just such a place. In 432 Plovdiv was conquered by Philip of Macedonia and under the Roman Empire it was the capital of Thrace. The legacy of the Romans alone would make Plovdiv stick out as a place of great significance but it doesn't stop there. Old Plovdiv is essentially an open-air museum with over 150 examples of Bulgarian architecture, much of it from the National Revival period. It is especially cheering to hear that the Old Town of Plovdiv is actually a town in its own right with particular emphasis on restoring and preserving notable buildings.
A recent newspaper article gave the impression ...
fizzytom 03.11.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Plovdiv
Here I will try to present you the city of Plovdiv and to prove you that it is worth making a vacation there.
The city of Plovdiv... One of the cities I will never forget wherever I am.
The History
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The city was founded somewhere before 6000-8000 years ago. It has had many names throughout the centuries - Kendros, Eumolpia, Philippopolis, Pulpudeva, Trimontzium (coming from Tremonteum - meaning Three Hills), Pulden, Populdin, Ploudin, Filibe and nowadays bears the name Plovdiv, which officially appeared somewhere in the 15th century. As you see, Plovdiv is a city even older than Rome, which is called "The eternal city". At the beginning the city was situated on three hills and after it exapanded, it stretched over seven hills. These hills were called Taxim, Nebet, Dzhambaz, Sahat, Dzhendem, Bunardzhik ...
roastme 03.06.2004 (05.06.2004)
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Advantages: SPA, swimming pools, historical sights of the village Disadvantages: very hot in the summer
The small village Hissar is in Bulgaria near a very famous city Plovdiv.
Please don't think that Augusta SPA Hotel is in Plovdiv. It is in the small and very interesting historical city Hissar which 55 km far from Plovdiv. You may arrive in Sofia by irplane and go in Hissar by bus. Hissar is 174.64 far from the capital Sofia.
Hissar city is located in the central part of the country under the southern slopes of the Central forest at 360 m above sea level (see wikipedia)
We visit SPA Hotel Augusta at least twice a year - we like it very much.
The best seasons to visit this region are the autumn and the spring. In the summer it is really very hot.
Hissar is an ancient town and its treasure is the mineral water. There are a lot of SPA Hotels and Augusta is one of the biggest.
The hotel has two parts. The first one is ...
