Lakatnik ( bg, Лакатник ) is a small

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

located in

Svoge Municipality Svoge Municipality is located in western Bulgaria and is a part of Sofia Province. It covers a territory of 868,6 km2 and has a population of around 21,000 people, more than 1/3 of which lives in the town of Svoge itself. The municipality also ...

, near the

Lakatnik rocks Lakatnik ( bg, Лакатник ) is a small village located in Svoge Municipality, near the Lakatnik rocks. The village has a train station called Gara Lakatnik on the train line Sofia - Mezdra located 8 km north of the village. During th ...

. The village has a

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called

Gara Lakatnik Gara Lakatnik is a village in Svoge Municipality, Sofia Province, western Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern fl ...

on the train line

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

- Mezdra located 8 km north of the village. During the years the train station turned into in a separate settlement. Lakatnik will co-host the Bulgarian National Youth Games in August 2017. The other host villages will be Bov,

Gara ''Gara'' (Basque: ''We Are'') is a bilingual (Basque/Spanish) newspaper published in the city of Donostia-San Sebastián in the Basque Autonomous Community. The newspaper's target market comprises the area of the Basque Country, but its cir ...

Bov and

Lakatnik. The cycling events will take part in the village.

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