Novi Iskar
Novi Iskar is a town in Western Bulgaria, located in Sofia City Province, which is a part of the Municipality of Sofia.
Novi Iskar is a town in Western Bulgaria, located in Sofia City Province, which is a part of the Municipality of Sofia.
It is often regarded as a northern suburb of Bulgarian capital Sofia and lies in the northern part of the Sofia Valley, with the Iskar Gorge beginning just north of the town.
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Worth seeing in and around Novi Iskar
One place 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.
- 01Central Sofia Cemetery
The Central Sofia Cemetery or the Orlandovtsi Cemetery is the main cemetery in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The cemetery has several chapels used by various Christian denominations, such as a Bulgarian Orthodox church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, a Roman Catholic chapel of Saint Francis of Assisi, an Armenian Apostolic chapel, a Jewish synagogue, etc.
9.4 km · cemetery in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
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Getting to Novi Iskar
- Airports
- Sofia (SOF), 13 km · Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 135 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 148 km
- Stations
- Obelya Metro Station, 8.9 km · Beli Dunav Metro Station, 8.6 km · Lomsko shose Metro Station, 8.4 km · Nadezhda Metro Station, 8.9 km · Han Kubrat Metro Station, 9.3 km
- Plovdiv → Novi Iskar136 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · лв14–18
- Burgas → Novi Iskar338 km · quickest by air, 4h 20m · лв100–160
- Varna → Novi Iskar373 km · quickest by air, 4h 22m · лв100–160
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No local-transport research exists yet for Novi Iskar
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 Novi Iskar. 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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Novi Iskar is 12 km from Sofia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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