Church of Sveta Bogoroditsa

Painted a fetching shade of butter-cream yellow, this three-nave church looks out proudly from a stone staircase at the base of the old town. Built in 1844 on the site of a 9th-century shrine, its 12th-century incarnations long ago sacked by the Ottomans, the church now contains icons and colorful murals, and bears an inscription of thanks to Bulgaria's liberators.

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