Aglen
St. Archangel Michael
A historic church that preserves the village's spiritual heritage, built in 1888 in honour of the local people who died as victims of the Turkish raids.
The Lukovit Karst Travel guideAs the village tells it The church of St Archangel Michael in Aglen is said to have been built in 1888.
As the village tells it local memory connects the building with the commemoration of villagers killed in raids during the Ottoman period.
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A village in Lukovit municipality, Lovech Province — the only settlement in Bulgaria whose name begins with the letter “Ъ”. It sits in the Vit River valley among the limestone rocks of the Lukovit Karst.
The flint workshopsThe prehistoric flint workshops on the terraces above the Vit — evidence that frames the area as industrially significant in prehistory.
The Revival: the descent to the terracesThe 19th century in Aglen: the village comes down from the heights to the river terraces, raises its church, and gives Bulgaria Trifon Kunev.