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

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.
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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.
- 01Kremikovtsi 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
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Getting to Podgumer
- Airports
- Sofia (SOF), 12 km · Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 139 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 144 km
- Plovdiv → Podgumer132 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · лв13–18
- Burgas → Podgumer334 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · лв100–160
- Varna → Podgumer369 km · quickest by air, 4h 16m · лв100–160
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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.
- 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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Podgumer is 14 km from Sofia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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