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Katinski Piramidi, Kostenets, Koulata and Kovachevitsa

10.05.2009 · Leave a Comment

Katinski Piramidi

Another pyramid-like 20 m high bedrock formations in rusty-brownish colour and reddish taints, to be found around the village of Katina, district Sofia. Point of approach to the site is the railway station of Kourillo, 5 km SW of Katina. Declared under legal protection as a natural landmark.

Kostenets

The town with a population of 9954 is a part of the district of Sofia territory, 74 km southeast of Sofia, beside the Sofia-Plovdiv motorway with railway and bus stations of the same destination. Momin Prohod, municipality of Kostenets is yet another balneologic resort of Bulgaria.

Kostenets

A village with same name as that of the municipality centre, 7 km southwest of the town of Kostenets, hidden in the northern foots of the Rila Mountains with 4296 native residents. The hydropathical resort, 2 km SW, with mineral water 46-73°C hot very effective in treatment of diseases of the locomotory system, gynaecological, nerve and other diseases. The balneological facilities are fitted out with a complex of rest houses, villas, a beautiful park with an artificial lake in it, waterfall 7 m high.

Koulata

Koulata is a medium-size village (898 local residents), municipality of Petrich, district Blagoevgrad. Located 15 km southeast of Petrich near the Greek-Bulgarian border beside the main motorway Sofia – Solun (Thessalonica) past the river of Strouma; also a middle railway station of the same line of connection. The settlement is known for busy border checkpoint and customs. Travellers can ask for accommodation, eating and drinking at the local motel and camping site.

Kovachevitsa

This is a small village, district of Blagoevgrad, municipality of Garmen, within 17 km southeast of its municipality centre, 23 km away from Gotse Delchev (a convenient motor road connection available), set in the western flanks of the Dabrash branch of the Rhodopes. The settlement features the presence and availability there of 110 old-time houses of the National Revival period and that is the reason why the place has been identified as an Architectural-and-Historical Reserve of the country.

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Govedartsi, Gyueshevo and Kalotina villages

16.04.2009 · Leave a Comment

Govedartsi

A clean village in the administrative district of Sofia, municipality of Samokov, 18 km southwest of the town of Samokov upstream in the valley of the river Cherni Iskar (Cherni and Beli Iskar are sister-rivers joining together to give water and run down as one Iskar river at a spot just a couple of miles above Samokov). The settlements with 1638 inhabitants, and an altitude of 1160 m above sea, is a mountain resort whose wholesome air and climate can and have given so far cure to a lot of suffering people.

Likewise, a local skiing centre, commonly haunted by skiers on account of its 120 days enduring snow cover, and by multiple holidaymakers for recreation during the multiple sunny days throughout the year. For the duration of their stay, visitors can undertake sightseeing tours around or visit the local museum to take a look at the ethnographic collection. There’s a Tourist centre, hotel, a few rest houses and villas.

Accommodation is also available in private rooms; the camp-site for motor touring holidaymakers is just a little bit southwards. The village provides a few hiking options, namely: 1hr 30 min walk along the trail heading to the Medarnika (or Mechit) Hut; 7 km southwest along the motor road to Roudaritsa (Gyulechitsa) location and Ovnarsko Tourist Centre; on foot (6hr) southwest to Yurdini Ezera (Yurdini Lakes); while moving on to Malyovitsa Tourist Complex will take you 4-5hr on foot.

Gyueshevo

The small village within the administrative bound of the Kyustendil district, municipality of Kyustendil, is some 22 kilometres of to the southwest of the district centre, quite a short way before the Macedonian frontier, and a railway terminus of the frontier-bound line from Sofia with border checkpoint and customs offices. Being a historical place of severe engagements in the wars of 1912-1918, the village sacredly preserves in the local Memorial Church-Mausoleum the mortal remains of 1,500 Bulgarian warriors fallen in the wars.

Kalotina

A village near the border with Serbia, municipality of Dragoman, district of Sofia. Village population consists of just 351 natives; others are border checkpoint and customs officials or foreign travellers crossing the inter-state border. Comprehensive services are provided by the local Tourist complex.

Karlanovski Piramidi

Bizarre rock pyramids, 100m. high, created by the nature in the vicinity of the village of Karlanovo, southeast of Melnik.

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Gotse Delchev

10.03.2009 · Leave a Comment

A town in the district of Blagoevgrad, with 20,426 residents and 510 m above the sea, set in the Gotse Delchev plain at the foot of the Middle Pirin Range, 110 km southeast of the district centre, 4 km west of the Mesta river and 44 km from the nearest railway station of Dobrinishte, Gotse Delchev lives a docile country life. The Bulgarian-Greek border is within only twenty kilometres off southward of the town, as yet not fitted out with appropriate checkpoint facilities.

Sightseeings and Local Sites of Tourist Interest

Although a bit cut off from trunk-routes and thoroughfares, Gotse Delchev has nonetheless lived an active and creative life both in the remote past and nowadays, as it can be seen in:

# The Museum of History, on Hristo Botev Str., set in an old house reemarkable for its architectural design and building solutions.

# The Rifat Bei National Revival Complex, arranged in an old stately house, located to the west of the centre in the old town ward.

# The Church of Sveta Bogoroditsa (Church of the St Mother), built in 1833-1841, and the Church of St Archangel Mikhail, since 1811.

Among indigenous sightseeings worth special mentioning are the 24 m in height and aged over half a millennium plane tree (or platan), as well as the Monument to Gotse Delchev, an eminent revolutionary of Macedonia.

Bus lines connect the town with Sofia, Plovdiv, Blagoevgrad, Razlog, Bansko, the village of Dobrinishte and other villages of the community. Gotse Delchev’s central bus station is to be found at Byalo More Str., there’s a private-run bus station, too.

Tourist information can be obtained from the Tourist Information Centre and the Council on Tourism, both to be found at 2 Tsaritsa Joanna Str., as well as from the local hikers’ Society, set in the Tourist Hostel, 26 Solun Str. Accommodation is provide round-the-clock by Nevrokop Hotel, in the town centre. Small private-run hotels are available, either.

Gotse Delchev is a starting point for a visit to the village of Kovachevitsa; another option is the village of Leshten, within some fifteen kilometres away from Gotse Delchev, where opportunities for country-cottage tourism are currently offered.

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