Letnitsa

Letnitsa is a small town on the Danubian Plain of Lovech Province, in central northern Bulgaria. It is best known internationally for the Letnitsa Treasure: in 1963, workers building a cowshed for the local agricultural cooperative unearthed an inverted bronze vessel roughly 50–60 cm underground containing 23 silver and gilded-silver appliqués — decorations from a Thracian horse harness, including a bridle and breastplate — dated to 385–335 BC, from the reign of the Odrysian king Cotys I. The pieces are considered among the finest examples of Thracian metalwork and are now held at the National History Museum in Sofia, not in Letnitsa itself. Letnitsa is also the administrative centre of Letnitsa Municipality, which contains the Krushuna Waterfalls, a well-known series of travertine cascades and pools near the village of Krushuna — one of the more visited natural sights in this part of Bulgaria.

Letnitsa lies in Lovech Province, reachable from the provincial capital Lovech by regional road.

The main draws are the Krushuna Waterfalls in the municipality (a short drive from the town, near Krushuna village and the Maara Cave) and, for those interested in archaeology, the site associated with the Letnitsa Treasure find, though the treasure itself is displayed in Sofia rather than locally.

• Lovech — the provincial capital, with its Covered Bridge and Hisarya fortress
• Krushuna Waterfalls and Devetashka Cave — within Letnitsa Municipality, among the region's best-known natural sights