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Podgumer

Podgumer is a village in Novi Iskar district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, located some 17 km north of the city center.

Podgumer
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The place

Podgumer is a village in Novi Iskar district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, located some 17 km north of the city center. As of 2024 it has 889 inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Podgumer

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.

  1. 01
    Kremikovtsi Monastery

    The Kremikovtsi Monastery of Saint George is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery near Kremikovtsi to the northeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Founded during the Second Bulgarian Empire and re-established in 1493 by a local Bulgarian noble, the monastery includes two churches.

    8.4 km · orthodoxy monastery in Kremikovtsi, Bulgaria · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Podgumer

Airports
Sofia (SOF), 12 km · Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 139 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 144 km
  • Plovdiv → Podgumer
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · лв13–18
  • Burgas → Podgumer
    334 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · лв100–160
  • Varna → Podgumer
    369 km · quickest by air, 4h 16m · лв100–160
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Podgumer

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 Podgumer. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    250 km
  2. 02
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    357 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    481 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    511 km

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Around it

Next door to Podgumer

Podgumer is 14 km from Sofia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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