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As well as the three hills covered by the old town, there are three more heights ranged across the southwestern quarter of Plovdiv. The one nearest to the centre, Sahat Tepe , provides a great view of the city, and the site for what some believe is the oldest clock tower in Eastern Europe, restored by the Turks in 1809, with an inscription enjoining visitors to "look upon" it "and admire!" From here one can gaze levelly across to the giant Soviet Army Memorial nicknamed "Alyosha" (which Plovdiv's SDS Mayor wanted to remove but couldn't afford to) on the Hill of the Liberators , which also has a pyramidal monument to the liberators of 1878 on a lower peak, where a Thracian temple dedicated to Apollo once stood. Further to the southwest lies the Hill of Youth , the largest and most park-like of the three.
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