Lovech Getting there & around

Getting there & away

From the bus station (603 618), hourly buses serve Troyan (4 lv, 45 minutes) from 7am to 7pm. Three daily buses serve Burgas (22 lv, six hours), Sliven (19 lv, four to five hours), Teteven (6 lv, 1¾ hours) and Veliko Târnovo (7 lv, two hours); more frequent buses cross the Stara Planina to Shipka (10 lv, 2½ hours, four daily) and Kazanlâk (12 lv, 3½ hours, four daily). Buses also leave hourly for Pleven (5 lv, one hour). Daily buses serve Sofia (14 lv, three hours, six daily), and one or two daily buses serve Vratsa (11 lv, three hours) in northern Bulgaria, via Cherven Bryag.

From the train station (634 935), three daily trains serve both Troyan (2.40 lv, one hour) and Levski (2.80 lv, 1 hour); from the latter, change for Sofia and the important railway hub of Gorna Oryakhovitsa (to get to Veliko Târnovo, among other places).