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Extract from the Botevgrad and Pravets Travel Guides:
An hour's drive beyond Sofia the highway bypasses
BOTEVGRAD
, hardly worth a detour unless you're aiming for the E79 to Vratsa, Montana and Vidin, which heads north from here. Once a thriving market town, profiting from its position at the northern end of the (no longer used) Baba Konak Pass, Botevgrad is nowadays a sterile modern place whose main claim to fame is the Chavdar factory - makers of the buses that clatter their way across Bulgaria.
About 10km beyond the turn-off to Botevgrad, another minor road forks east to
PRAVETS
, a previously unremarkable village whose status as the birthplace of f...
read the whole Botevgrad and Pravets Travel Guides...
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