Sights in Municipality Samokov

Every weekend the restored fortress Tsari Mali Grad near village of Belchin is visited by thousands of tourists. Old and children arrive in Belchin to get back in the times. Here is the place where the daughter of the Emperor Theodosius-Aelia Galla Placidia, found a the paradise corner at the...

Ski resort Borovets (known in the past as Chamkoriya) is located 10km away of town of Samokov, in the foot of peak Musala (2952m, Rila Mountain) at 1350m above sea level. This is Bulgaria oldest mountain resort.The resort is situated on the northern slopes of Rila Mountain among age old pine woods...

The five-six hundred meters north of the Dragushinovo village, at the right from the road to village of Zlokuchene, is situated  the "Boyoov dol" locality. The region is a historic and there are lot of sagas and legends about it.In the beginning of the XXI-st century there was built a ...

The Historical Museum in Samokov is located in the real center of the town. It was created in the beginning of the 30s of XXth century when the prominent local artists Naum Hadjimladenov and Vasil Zahariev initiated the establishing of a museum collection. The collection was exposed in the local ...

West of the village of Dragushinovo, on the left side of the main road 82 from Samokov - Sofia, is built a monument, dedicated to the partisans from Samokov region, died in 1944. The monument represents a composition of a sculpture of a woman with a child. On the front side of the pedestals are i...

The Fortress Alinskoto Kale is located about 7 kilometers west of the village Alino (Samokov municipality). Probably the fortress was built in XII-XIII century and existed until the middle of XVII-th century. The castle was wwith area of 3 decares and there are still preserved remains from the w...

This Church Nativity of the Virgin is located south of the town of Samokov, left of the road to ski resort of Borovets. The church is known also as Beliova church, because according to someone it was a small private temple of a local feudal named Belyo.The Church of Nativity of the Virgin is the ...

According to a legend, there was a large church in village of Dragushinovo that was bear away by the flood waters of the Iskar river. Left without a church the local people decided to build a new one and so, in the middle of the XIXth century (1869), during several years, has been built the current ...

St. Тodors day is a big holiday for the Christians and official holiday of Dragoshinovo village. The fest is characterized by horse racing (kushii), but unique for the the village of Dragoshinovo is made during the feast votive meal of crab (rachnik - from Bulgarian word "rack" = ...

The ski-center of Malyovitsa is located in area of Mecha Polyana, in Maliovitsa part of Rila Mountain, 13 km south-west of village of Govedartsi, 92 km far from Sofia and 40 km far from Borovets.It is situated at 1720 meters above sea level. The region offers excellent conditions for winter tour...