Plovdiv Central railway station is the main station

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 serving the city and municipality

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 of Plovdiv

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, the second most populous city in Bulgaria

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Opened in the 1870s, the station forms part of the Lyubimets

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–Belovo

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 railway, which also links Sofia

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, capital city of Bulgaria, with Istanbul

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, capital city of Turkey

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. There are 17 tracks in the station!

The baroque style station building, designed by the Italian architect professor Mariano Pernigoni, was completed in 1908.