--- title: "Dupnitsa – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Dupnitsa, Bulgaria: Dupnitsa, or Dupnica, is a town in Western Bulgaria. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dupnitsa" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dupnitsa.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Panorama_of_Dupnitsa_and_Rila_Mountain%2C_Bulgaria.jpg" --- Town in Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria # Dupnitsa Dupnitsa, or Dupnica, is a town in Western Bulgaria. ![Dupnitsa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Panorama_of_Dupnitsa_and_Rila_Mountain%2C_Bulgaria.jpg) Dupnitsa · Wikimedia Commons The place Dupnitsa, or Dupnica, is a town in Western Bulgaria. It is at the foot of the highest mountains in the Balkan Peninsula – the Rila Mountains, and about 50 km (31 mi) south of the capital Sofia. Dupnitsa is the second largest town in Kyustendil Province. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupnitsa), CC BY-SA 4.0. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see 1. Fortress Kulata Remains of mediaeval fortress Kulata. 2. Clock Tower The Clock Tower built in 1782. 3. Park Rila 4. Art Gallery 5. Medieval 6. City Garden From [Wikivoyage: Dupnitsa](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dupnitsa), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat 1. Hotel Rila Svoboda sqr. 2. Hotel Universal From [Wikivoyage: Dupnitsa](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dupnitsa), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Dupnitsa **Airports:** Sofia (SOF), 54 km · Skopje (SKP), 128 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 145 km\ - Sofia → Dupnitsa 51 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · лв6–8 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sofia-to-dupnitsa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sofia&to=Dupnitsa) - Plovdiv → Dupnitsa 135 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · лв18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/plovdiv-to-dupnitsa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Plovdiv&to=Dupnitsa) - Burgas → Dupnitsa 358 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · лв40–55 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/burgas-to-dupnitsa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Burgas&to=Dupnitsa) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Dupnitsa) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Dupnitsa 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 Dupnitsa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 212 km 2. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 255 km 3. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 327 km 4. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 462 km 5. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 495 km If you know how people move in Dupnitsa – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cdupnitsa&title=Dupnitsa&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fdupnitsa), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Dupnitsa Dupnitsa is 51 km from [Sofia](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sofia), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Yahinovo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yahinovo) village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria 3.4 km - [Bistritsa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bistritsa) village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria 4.4 km - [Samoranovo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/samoranovo) village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria 3.5 km - [Balanovo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/balanovo) village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria 5.1 km - [Dzherman](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dzherman) village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria 5.1 km - [Piperevo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/piperevo) village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria 2.6 km [The place page for Dupnitsa](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/dupnitsa) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Bulgaria](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-BG) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dupnitsa, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt