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Bozhentsi

Bozhentsi, officially but not commonly Bozhentsite (Боженците), is a village and architectural reserve in Gabrovo municipality, Gabrovo Province, in central northern Bulgaria.

Bozhentsi
Bozhentsi · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bozhentsi, officially but not commonly Bozhentsite (Боженците), is a village and architectural reserve in Gabrovo municipality, Gabrovo Province, in central northern Bulgaria. The village lies in the middle part of the Balkan Mountains, 15 km east of Gabrovo and just north of the Shipka Pass. It is noted for its well-preserved Bulgarian National Revival architecture and history, and is thus a well-known tourist destination in the area.

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Getting to Bozhentsi

Airports
Plovdiv (PDV), 100 km · Sofia (SOF), 164 km · Burgas (BOJ), 175 km
  • Plovdiv → Bozhentsi
    97 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · лв13–18
  • Sofia → Bozhentsi
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · лв19–26
  • Burgas → Bozhentsi
    172 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · лв22–29
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bozhentsi

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bozhentsi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe town has its own small bus system, some taxis and marshrutkas.

From Wikivoyage: Tryavna, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    240 km
  2. 02
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    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    303 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

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  4. 04
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    603 km
  5. 05
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    644 km

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