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YABLANITSA is the lynchpin of the local bus network and site of a turn-off for the Vit Valley, where the market town of Teteven and village of Ribaritsa provide access to some verdant pastures and craggy hills. Ten kilometres up the valley the road hits GLOZHENE , a drab industrialized village known chiefly for the nearby monastery , perched high above and practically invisible from the valley. It's a small monastery, housing a tiny nineteenth-century church enclosed by fortress-like living quarters with stone ground-floor walls and overhanging timber upper storeys. Track-suited monks will show you round a museum containing the church silver, and you can enjoy views of the surrounding countryside from the monastery's cliff-top eyrie. Most vehicles will balk at the gravelled roadway that winds up to the monastery from the village, and will opt for the longer, roundabout route, which takes you back along the Yablanitsa road for 8km before turning southwards to the village of Malak Izvor, then eastwards on a gravel road to the monastery itself - a gorgeous rural ride by car or bike (available for rent from the tourist office in Teteven). If you fancy walking, a shorter route (for which allow 50 minutes) takes you south from Glozhene's central bus stop along the Teteven road, across a footbridge spanning the Vit, through the Spartak sports field, up a cobbled hillside path, then forks right up a wooded ravine.
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