- We walk down, buy our entrance ticket, and stand right under the top of the outcrop o which Asen's Fortress was built.
- There is a parking area at the entrance to the fortress. Asen’s Fortress was declared an architectural monument in Issue 20 of the State Records of 1973.
- Asen’s Fortress is the most interesting and most often visited tourist attraction in the Asenovgrad region.
- Later in 1204, the Crusaders under René du Troisoccupied the Asen Fortress, rebuilding it and expanding it.Since so many people occupied the Asen Fortress, it...
- Asen’s Fortress is a medieval fortress in the Rhodope Mountains, it is located 2-3 km south of Asenovgrad. It is named after the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II.
- The name of the fortress is associated with Tsar Ivan Asen II, who undertook the greatest reconstruction and expansion of the fortress.
- Asen’s fortress stands on a high ridge south of the town of Asenovgrad. A fortification has existed here since the 3rd century BC, built by Thracians.
- Asen's Fortress. Check out this medieval fortress high in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains, which dates back to the fifth century B.C.E.! It is best known...
- Asen's Fortress, identified by some researchers as Petrich (Петрич), is a medieval fortress in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains, 2 to 3 kilometres south of...