Chepintsi
Chepintsi is a village in Novi Iskar district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, located some 10 km north of the city center.
Chepintsi is a village in Novi Iskar district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, located some 10 km north of the city center. As of 2024 it has 2,509 inhabitants.
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Worth seeing in and around Chepintsi
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
8 km · Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia - 02Bulgarian Orthodox Church
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with the other Eastern Orthodox churches. It is the first medieval recognised patriarchate outside the Pentarchy and the oldest Slavic Orthodox church, with some 6 million members in Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2 million members in a number of other European countries, Asia, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.
8 km · Orthodox autocephalous church · Wikipedia - 03Sofia University
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgarian: Софийски университет „Св.
8.2 km · university in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia - 04Banya Bashi Mosque
Banya Bashi Mosque is a Sunni Islamic mosque in Sofia, Bulgaria.
7.8 km · mosque in Bulgaria · Wikipedia - 05Vasil Levski National Stadium
Vasil Levski National Stadium, named after Bulgarian national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski, is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 43,230 seats and is located in the centre of Sofia, on the territory of the city's oldest and most famous park - the Borisova gradina.
8.9 km · football stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia - 06SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library
The SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library is the national library of Bulgaria, situated in the capital city of Sofia. Founded on 4 April 1878, the library received the status of Bulgarian National Library three years later and the Bulgarian National Revival Archive was merged into it in 1924.
8.1 km · library in Bulgaria · Wikipedia - 07Saint Sophia Church
The Saint Sofia Church is a Bulgarian Orthodox church, located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Built as a church in the fourth century CE, the building was converted to a mosque in the 16th century and was restored as a basilica during the 19th and 20th centuries.
7.9 km · church building in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia - 08National Archaeological Museum, Bulgaria
The National Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It occupies the building of the largest and oldest former Ottoman mosque in the city, originally known as Koca Mahmut Paşa Camii.
8.1 km · archaeological museum in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia - 09Saint Nedelya Church
The Saint Nedelya Cathedral, is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, a cathedral of the Sofia bishopric of the Bulgarian Patriarchate.
8.1 km · Metropolitan Cathedral Church in Sofia · Wikipedia - 10Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
The Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church is a sui iuris Eastern Catholic church based in Bulgaria. As a particular church of the Catholic Church, it is in full communion with the Holy See.
8.9 km · particular church in full communion with the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chepintsi
- Airports
- Sofia (SOF), 10 km · Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 137 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 146 km
- Stations
- Sofia Airport, 9.3 km
- Plovdiv → Chepintsi128 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · лв13–17
- Burgas → Chepintsi332 km · quickest by air, 4h · лв100–150
- Varna → Chepintsi368 km · quickest by air, 4h 2m · лв100–150
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chepintsi
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 Chepintsi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextaccessible by public transport) To the southwest: industrial Pernik on the other side of Vitosha; further away is Kyustendil, "Bulgaria's orchard" under the Osogovo Mountain on the border To the south, under the slopes of Rila: Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad, with the Rila Monastery, the most famous in Bulgaria and a (suitable for a day trip from Sofia) To the southeast, closer: Samokov and the mountain/ski resorts of Borovets and Malyovitsa Elsewhere in Bulgaria: Plovdiv – Bulgaria's second most populous city, with good highway and rail connections to Sofia.
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Next door to Chepintsi
Chepintsi is 8 km from Sofia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sofiacapital city of Bulgaria8 km
- Novi Iskarcity in Stolichna municipality, Sofia Capital oblast, Bulgaria6.2 km
- Negovanvillage in Stolichna municipality, Sofia Capital oblast, Bulgaria4.4 km
- Mramorvillage in Stolichna municipality, Sofia Capital oblast, Bulgaria6.7 km
- Voluyakvillage in Stolichna municipality, Sofia Capital oblast, Bulgaria8.8 km
- Stolichna Municipalitymunicipality in Sofia Capital oblast, Bulgaria9.6 km