Road I-3 begins from a junction with the first class
I-5 road on the left bank of the river
Yantra, west of the town of
Byala in Ruse Province. It runs west through the
Danubian Plain, passes through the village of
Peychinovo and reaches Veliko Tarnovo Province. There, it runs through the villages of
Maslarevo,
Gorna Studena and
Ovcha Mogila, where it crosses the river
Barata, and then reaches Pleven Province. The road passes through
Kozar Belene, crosses the
Osam, and continues west through the villages of
Obnova and
Totleben, before reaching
Pleven, the
seventh largest city in Bulgaria. It bypasses Pleven from the north and northwest, crosses the river
Vit, and turns southwest. The road passes through
Dolni Dabnik,
Gorni Dabnik,
Telish and
Radomirtsi, and enters Lovech Province. It ascends along the left banks of the river
Zlatna Panega, runs through the town of
Lukovit and the villages of
Petrevene,
Rumyantsevo and
Zlatna Panega, and reaches its Km 155.8, where a junction forms the beginning of the first class
I-4 road. The I-2 then enters the fore-Balkan, running in parallel to the
Hemus motorway for some 28 km. It passes through the town of
Yablanitsa and enters Sofia Province at the villages of
Dzhurovo, where at its Km 171.7 starts the second class
II-37 road. Southwest of Dzhurovo it crosses the river
Malki Iskar and then runs through the villages of
Osikovitsa,
Osikovska Lakavitsa and
Praveshka Lakavitsa, reaching the northern outskirts of the town of
Pravets. The road turns west, passes through the village of
Razliv between the fore-Balkan to the north and the
Balkan Mountains to the south, and enters
Botevgrad Valley. There, it runs through the villages of
Trudovets and the town of
Botevgrad, where it reaches its terminus at Km 190.2 of the first class
I-1 road. == References ==