Thracian tomb Helvetia

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The Thracian tomb "Helvetia" mound near Shipka, Bulgaria, was built in the middle of the 4th century BC. ()

Local name: ХелвецияCoordinates: 42°42'20"N, 25°20'47"E

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Stara ZagoraBulgaria

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Nearby attractions include: Thracian tomb Shushmanets, Tomb of Seuthes III, Shipka Memorial Church, Ostrusha mound.

~850 ftNE
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Thracian tomb Shushmanets, Shipka
5 min walk • The Thracian tomb at Shushmanets is a mound located in the Valley of the Thracian Rulers. It was built as a temple in the 4th century BC and later used as a tomb.
0.8 miSW
Museum, Tomb
Tomb of Seuthes III
20 min walk • The Tomb of Seuthes III is located near Kazanlak, Bulgaria. Seuthes III was the King of the Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace from c. 331 to c. 300 BC and founder of the nearby Thracian city of Seuthopolis. It is one of the most elaborate tombs in the Valley of the Thracian Rulers.
1.1 miNW
Church, Russian revival architecture
Shipka Memorial Church, Shipka
30 min walk • The Memorial Temple of the Birth of Christ, better known as the Shipka Memorial Church or Shipka Monastery is a Bulgarian Orthodox church built near the town of Shipka in Stara Planina between 1885 and 1902 to Antoniy Tomishko's design in the seventeenth-century Muscovite style, under the direction of architect Alexander Pomerantsev.
1.1 miS
Museum, Tomb
Ostrusha mound
29 min walk • The Ostrusha mound is a Thracian burial tumulus near the Bulgarian town of Shipka. It was constructed in the middle of the 4th century BCE.
~460 ftW
Museum, Tomb
Thracian tomb Griffins
3 min walk • The Thracian tomb Griffins, found in Bulgaria, has a façade decorated with plastic columns and with a pediment above them. The pediment`s ends are semi-palmettes, the lower leaves of which are elongated and look like heads of griffins.