Lyaskovets
Lyaskovets is a town in central northern Bulgaria, located in homonymous municipality of Veliko Tarnovo Province, 10 km northeast of Veliko Tarnovo, 2 km southeast of Gorna Oryahovitsa and 5 km south of the Yantra River, north of the Balkan Mountains.
Lyaskovets is a town in central northern Bulgaria, located in homonymous municipality of Veliko Tarnovo Province, 10 km northeast of Veliko Tarnovo, 2 km southeast of Gorna Oryahovitsa and 5 km south of the Yantra River, north of the Balkan Mountains. Its name comes from the word leska ('hazel') or leshnik ('hazelnut'), because the tree was abundant in the area. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 10,314.
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Worth seeing in and around Lyaskovets
2 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.
- 01M. V. Lomonosov School of Electrical and Electronics
The M. V. Lomonosov School of Electro-technics and Electronics is a Bulgarian professional Engineering school and one of the most selective technical schools in Bulgaria. The school is located in Gorna Oryahovitsa.
3.7 km · engineering college in Bulgaria · Wikipedia - 02Rachovets
Rahovets was an ancient Thracian, medieval and Ottoman fortress in Northeastern Bulgaria. It is located on a hill close to the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa and Veliko Tarnovo.
3.9 km · ancient Thracian and Ottoman fortress in Bulgaria · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lyaskovets
- Airports
- Plovdiv (PDV), 135 km · Burgas (BOJ), 158 km · Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu (BBU), 159 km
- Plovdiv → Lyaskovets133 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · лв19–26
- Burgas → Lyaskovets157 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · лв20–27
- Varna → Lyaskovets177 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · лв19–26
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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 Lyaskovets
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 Lyaskovets. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMany national trains to Veliko Tarnovo require changing at Gorna Oryahovitsa; in that case, it can be more convenient to just buy a ticket to that town and then take a bus, minibus or taxi from Gorna Oryahovitsa station to Veliko Tarnovo.
- Get inThere are two minibuses per day to and from Plovdiv.
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Next door to Lyaskovets
- Gorna Oryahovitsacity in Gorna Oryahovitsa municipality, Veliko Tarnovo oblast, Bulgaria3.5 km