As a real expression of wealthy merchant family’s prosperity, the interesting old homes - fortresses of Bansko, built for security and active defence of their owners. They are distinguished from the widespread types of mountain Bulgarian house on their complex internal distribution, availability of service rooms, secret corridors and hiding places on their massive stone construction. Most characteristic feature of fortified Bansko house is the presence of a stone housing core adapted for temporary residence and defence. The house walls are massive, stone made, outer reaching 1.20 m of thickness. There are carved holes, "fighters", serving for shooting. Doors are low, made of pine wood with iron lockers. Windows are small, protected from the outside with iron grilles and inside with wooden shutters, sloping with sliding walls, beams embedded in the wall. “Chardak” (Veranda) is spacious, surrounded by beautifully landscaped wood fence and artificially cut wooden columns.