Shipkovo

Shipkovo is a village in Troyan Municipality, Lovech Province, central northern Bulgaria. The village is known for its mineral thermal spring.

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Settlement.official_name: Shipkovo
Settlement.native_name: Шипково
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Shipkovo townhall.JPG
Settlement.caption: Shipkovo townhall
Settlement.pushpin_map: Bulgaria
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: Location in Bulgaria
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Lovech Province
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Troyan

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Shipkovo is a village in Troyan Municipality, Lovech Province, central northern Bulgaria. The village is known for its mineral thermal spring.

== Geography == The village of Shipkovo is located in the Balkan Mountains, 20 km west of Troyan, and is known as a place for Balneotherapy since ancient times with a hot mineral spring (32 °C / up to 10 liters per second) in the resort of the same name, about 2 km from the village . The mineral composition of the water cures liver, kidney and stomach diseases.