This project is co-financed by the European Union through Welcome to Bansko - an all year resort and a symbol of Bulgarian culture!
Bansko Municipality is a magical mix of history, traditions, culture. With ancient architecture, heroic history, authentic folklore, several centuries-old culture, preserved traditions and customs, specific cuisine, incredible humor and rich language - the mountain and revival town will touch you to the past.
Nature can be called the "greatest treasure" of the municipality. This is evidenced by the Pirin National Park, Yulen, Bayuvi Dupki - Djindzhiritsa Reserves and the protected Natura 2000 sites located on its territory. This small part of the paradise includes centuries-old spruce-pine forests, extensive dwarf formations, mountain sharp crests, deep cirques, and emerald glacial lakes. Pirin National Park is recognized as a site of world significance and by UNESCO order from 1983 it is included in the Convention for the Protection of the World Natural Heritage.
Bansko and Dobrinishte have ski areas with chair lifts and ski slopes on a very high level, suitable restaurant and hotel facilities. Modern gondola lift connects the town of Bansko with the higher part of the Pirin mountain, where is the ski area, which provides excellent conditions for professional and amateur skiing. Other villages in the municipality offer many opportunities for rural tourism.
Paisii Hilendarski and Neofit Rilski, the poet Nikola Vaptsarov and many other significant personalities are born here.
Numerous archaeological sites of the prehistory, antiquity and Middle Ages testify to the settlement of the municipality from earliest times. Bansko Municipality is also famous for its rich cultural heritage, massive sports and cultural events, mineral and silver water with proven healing properties.
There is a railway station of the Septemvri - Dobrinishte mountain train.
Bansko municipality is characterized by the presence of an extremely varied vegetation with representatives of more than 6 plant belts - alpine, subalpine, coniferous, beech, rocky, grassy, anthropogenic. The forest territories occupy 76% of the municipality. Altogether in Pirin there are 1100 taxons plants of which 70 species are endemic.
The species diversity of mammals in the park is about 50% of the mammalian fauna in Bulgaria; invertebrates are represented by nearly 30% of the species in Bulgaria; the established 159 bird species represent 40% of the species diversity for Bulgaria.