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Roman History In Plovdiv — Bulgaria’s Second Largest City
The history of this city is mind-blowing!
We were last in Bulgaria in 2015 for just 2 weeks. During that time we saw a few different towns and had hoped to get to Plovdiv. I had heard that it was a cool university city with a youthful vibe, which was enough of a selling point for me, but it just didn’t work out with our short schedule then.
Last week, while looking into buses and trains from Istanbul to Sofia, Bulgaria's capital city, I realized that Plovdiv is on the way, and we could stop there if we wanted instead of going all the way to the capital. This was a win-win because it was; A) cheaper than going all the way to Sofia, and B) closer to the next town that we wanted to go to.
We are terrible at researching places before we go and prefer to be surprised when we get there, so you can imagine our surprise when we found Roman ruins in the center of the city!
We had no idea!
