Bansko is the open-air museum, the architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been preserved here. There is a large number of cultural monuments, houses - museums in Bansko, there is a constantly working ethnographic exhibition, where you can see the works of the Banner School of Icon Pouring. Old Church of the Holy Trinity which has been built in 1835 - m, has large sizes. Here in the yard stands from stone a tower, having a height of thirty-meters, the merit of her construction lies on the Master of Grigore Dyevie (it happened in 1850 - m
) With bell tower and clock, which was performed by Todor Hadzhiradonov in 1869 - m. Velinova Kyshta, or House Velinova - Building, belonging to the Renaissance era, decorated with beautiful frescoes and a wonderful garden. Visitors here are learning a rich local history and culture, craft arts and traditions of Nard. Here you can see the ruins of old fortifications that remained in Old gradische , in four kilometers south of Bansko, as well as Yulene What is lower by the River Demynitsa. You can also look at Holy - Trinity settlements the times of the Middle Ages, which is located north - east of the city, and Remains of churches of St. George and Saint Elijah Also built in the Middle Ages - they are located on the south-east of the Bansko resort. BUT National Park "Pirin" Because of its unique natural resources is located in the list of UNESCO monuments.
National Park "Pirin"
This park is located on a large area of Pirin Mountains in the southwestern part of the state. Seven settlements are located within the borders of the Park, which are under the subordination of the Administrative Regional Center Blagoevgrad: Bansko, Razlog, Gotse - Delchev, Stroke, Sandanski, Crescent and Simitli.
Part of the protected territories of Pirin Park - such as, for example, "Baewwi - Duplicas - Jindgirin" previously represented one of the oldest reserves. It was founded in 1934 - m. The task of its foundation was the preservation of a virgin forest, which consisted of white and Balkan pines, as well as the wealth of the world of flora and fauna. In 1977, he was brought to the list of natural objects UNESCO according to the project "Man and Biosphere". In 1994, another reserve was also founded here - "Yulelen".
In Pirin Park, 182 types of herbs with medicinal properties were discovered, 1315 species of higher plants are approximately the third part of the world of the Flora, which is in the state. Also here you can meet about 320 species of moss and 165 - algae.
The wealth of the diversity of local reliefs and vegetable world is a logical prerequisite for the existence of the same diversity and in the animal world. In Pirin Park, more than two thousand species of invertebrates and more than two hundred and vertebrate animals were found. Here they live ordinary quaches (Hue Arborea) and the Balkan Turtle (Testudo Hermanni) - these animals are made to the Red Book of the International Level.
There are two tourist routes in Sinanice. The one that has a brown label is the road leading from the territory of Mandrat to the "Sipitsa" (and the Pirin Tourbases "), and the one that has yellow - comes from the territory of the Mandrat to the territory of the Black Water (there is a tourist" Javor ") . In the terrain of Mandrat founded the reference center of "Vlasinsk River".
Through the Park zone of Baewwi - the hoods runs the international route E4: Pyrenees - Alps - Rila - Pirin - Peloponnes. In the mountains, Pirin, this road comes from the "Limit" tourist, followed by the tourist bases of "Javor", "Vihren", barrier "tevno drier", then the tourist base "Pirin" - to the terrain "Podid Livadi", or "Popov Luga". The second tourist road comes from the city of Razlog, which is located in the terrain of Betolenoto - to the Turbase "Javorov" through Sukhodolsky Pass - to the city of the cross. The historical museum has a center where you can get data about this park area.
Park District Vihren mainly belongs to the city of Bansko. The highest point of Pirin Mountains is vigor, it has 2914 meters high. This point is the second height in the country, it is inferior only to the top of Musala, which is in the mountains of Rila. This mountain is included in the list of hundreds of national tourism facilities. On the tourist base, the vortex can be seal - a certificate of climbing this mountain. It is here, on this site of the National Reserve "Pirin", the oldest tree in the country grows in the country - a blob of pine, bearing the name Baikusheva. She is the same age of the Sannaya State of Bulgaria, who is more than a thousand three hundred years. In the city of Bansko is the office of this area.
The Burning Zone includes part of the Yulene Reserve, where the peer is located Poland and Poland Lake. This park area has its own office in s. Dobrinishte.
Eight tourist bases and four shelters are located in Pirin National Park.
In Bansko, there is an information center for tourists who came to Pirin National Park. Here is the exposition "Pirinsky Forests". Twenty-two interactive modules you can get acquainted with entertaining and amazing stories that took place with the inhabitants of this mountainous area - representatives of the world of flora and fauna. There is a visual hall, which is designed for thirty places, it is equipped with a multimedia, it is a large screen. In this room you can see more than one hundred and fifty paintings of the research and popular content about the world of flora and fauna, films shot specifically about Pirin National Park, as well as other security territories in the state, to visit the lectures from experts that work here. In the information center you can go through training - both adults and children, to participate in mountain campaigns along the educational tracks created specifically for this purpose by the park administration, to visit the outdoor classes. The project "On Nature Find out best in the midst of nature" is intended for people of different ages.
The Pirin National Park is a very important object, special efforts are applied to its savings. Tourists are strictly forbidden to leave behind the garbage, as well as to engage in hunting, fishing in several rivers, illegally cut down the forest and perform other actions contrary to the task of protecting natural wealth.