Perushtitsa
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Townhall of Perushtitsa, the cultural centrum – "2000 years, 1 goal: liberty"
Perushtitsa (Bulgarian: Перущица) is a Bulgarian town located in the Plovdiv Oblast at the foot of the Rhodopes.
The town is famous throughout Bulgaria for the fight that took place there in 1876 during the April Uprising against the Ottoman reign.
The use of a special grape was invented in Perushtitsa, leading to a typical Bulgarian wine, Mavrud.
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