Sights in District Blagoevgrad

The Historical Museum of Melnik is housed in Pashova house - a building dating from 1815. The museum is a subsidiary of the historic museum of town of Sandanski.In the museum was established an ethnographic exposure related to the life and culture of the Bulgarians from Pirin Macedonia. Special...

Neophyt Rilski (real name Nichola Benin) is a prominent Bulgarian educator - a monk, teacher and artist - one of the patriarchs of the Bulgarian education and enlightenment. He was born in 1793 in town of Bansko and teaches iconography here - in the Bansko School of Art Thomas Vishanov-Molera. He...

Baba Vanga (January 31, 1911 - August 11, 1996) is phenomenal Bulgarian prophetess, known worldwide for its possibility to predict the future and to help people in difficult for them times. In order of her explicit will all of her movable and immovable property was bequeathed to the Bulgarian state,...

The Baykusheva mura is the oldest coniferous tree in Bulgaria. Its age is more than 1300 years. The tree is located in the national park Pirin, in the eastern foot of the Vihren summit, south-west of town of Bansko.The Baykusheva mura is a rare and extremely precious specimen of the Pinum...

Yane Sandanski is one of the most famous and beloved Bulgarian revolutionaries, member of IMRO and fighter for the liberation of Macedonia. He was born on May 18, 1872 in the village of Vlahi, which lies on the western slopes of the Pirin Mountains. The revolutionary was killed on April 21, 1915....

The Monastery "St. Archangel Michael" is located north of the village of Brestovo (Blagoevgrad district), in the neighborhood Popovski, 20km west of town of Simitli in the valley of "Stara reka" river. The monastery is one of the oldest in southwestern Bulgaria and it ...

Skoka (means "The Jump") Waterfall is one of the largest and the most beautiful natural attractions in Pirin Mountain. The waterfall is located 2km away of the village of Kashina and 10 km from the Rozhen monastery. There are info-boards to it, starting from the village. The name comes f...

Chalet Kamenitsa (aka Begovitsa) is located in Pirin Mountain, 28 km North-Eastern of Sandanski. This is a massive three-storey building with shared bathrooms. The hut has electricity, water and local heating. There is a restaurant and dining room. Near the hut there are ski slopes, equipped with t...

Chalet Popovi Livadi is located in the Pirin mountain in the area named Popovi Livadi (aka Papazchair), 16 km away of town of Gotse Delchev and on an altitude of 1412 m. The building is massive, two-storey with a capacity of 70 tourists. The hut has water and electricity and is heated by fir...

The Djindjiritsa reserve (aka Bayuvi Dupki) was established in 1934 and is one of the oldest reserves in Bulgaria. It covers an area of about 3000 hectares in Pirin mountain, at altitude between  1200 and 2884 m., not far away west of towns of Bansko and Razlog. The reserve is a home of variety of ...