Old town (3) by ger4444
There are many ways to walk the old town. Let me suggest a route. You start best at the ploshtat Dzhumaya. Here you can see the Dzumaya mosque. And you stand near the Roman Stadium. You can have a drink at the I Claudius café before you start. Go to the right and walk the Saborna street. Then turn to the right in Mitropolit Paisii street, where at the end of the street you find the Danov house, the St. Nicolai church and the Sveta Bogoroditsa. Then, go back to the Saborna street, walk over the overpass. Go to the right at the thirt street where you find the gallery of fine arts. Again at Saborna a bit further on the right hand the Apteka is located. Look trough the window. A bit further again, turn to the right where you find a small square, here the Boyadjiev house is located. Go back to the Saborna street and before a crossroad you find the St Konstantin and Helena church. On your right side at the crossroad you see the Gate Hissar Kapiya. Turn to the left and follow the 4 yanuari street where you find roman columns and a bit further the Balabanov and Hindlian houses. Behind the latter house there is a street, go to the right and follow the Artin Gidikov street, at the end go to the right where you can find the Kevork church. Go back to the crossroad where you have the Hissar Kapiya gate and go to the left, Chomakov street, so that you can climb the ruins of Eumolpias. Here you are at the top of the Nebet Tepe. You have a great panorama over the city from here and see the surrounding mountains in the distance. There is a terrace, which is converted to a bistro, so you can have a drink there before you head back down the hill. Before you reach the crossroad again, you find the well known etnografical museum on your left hand. A bit further, go to the Hisar Kapiya gate and on the left behind the gate there are the historical museum amd the Nedkovich house. Go to the right and follow the Cyril Nektariev street and Pulden street, you pass by the Lamartine house on your left hand. From there signs give the direction through the Hemus street to the Amfitheater. Go back to Lamartine house where you take the Samodomov street, at the end of this street keep on the right side, where you find again the churches you ve seen in the beginning. You end up at the Saborna street where you can head back to the pl. Dzhumaya.
