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Extract from the Dupnitsa Travel Guides:
Heading south from Sofia, the first town in the Struma Valley of any significance is
DUPNITSA
, which is still known to some locals by its Communist-era name
Stanke Dimitrov
(Stanketo for short). Its only real claim to fame is its
tobacco
industry: every year some eight million kilos of the stuff passes through Dupnitsa's warehouses and processing plants, the river is tinted a nicotine yellow, and you can see huge quantities of tobacco growing, or spread out to dry, throughout the surrounding countryside. However, the only reason for travellers to come here is to catch a bus to more appealing destina... read the whole Dupnitsa Travel Guides...
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