Sights
Churches, old town centres and natural monuments in and around the Razlog valley.
Old churches, stone houses and views
In the valley stand centuries-old churches and merchant houses, and on a hill lie the remains of a fortress more than 3,500 years old. Most places are small and quiet, you often have them almost to yourself.
What is there to see?
ChurchHoly Trinity Church
Central church with a separate tower and murals
St. Theodore Church
Medieval church with Byzantine frescoes
CultureOld town of Bansko
Narrow streets and old houses in Bulgarian style
Velyan House
Historic house with art and crafts
ArchaeologyNameless City
Thracian sanctuary, fortress walls with watchtowers and an early Christian basilica
NatureSt. Nicholas waterfall
Waterfall with a picnic spot
Baikushev-den
A 1,300-year-old tree, the oldest in Bulgaria
NatureMountain lakes
Okoto, Muratovo and Popovo, carved out by glaciers
NatureBunderishka Polyana
Tubing and picnics in summer, the starting point of the slopes in winter
ViewRazlog Observation Tower
365 steps to a view over the whole valley
ViewVihren
Highest peak of the Pirin, 2,914 m
NatureHot springs
Public baths and spas
Three places that stay with you
The Nameless City
In 2003, workers renovating a chapel found the foundations of an old building. Archaeologists excavated a fortress with walls, watchtowers, streets and gates. They found Roman coins, pottery and glass, a precious material at the time. Nobody knows what the city was called: no inscription or story about it has survived.
Baikushev-den
A Bosnian pine about 1,300 years old, 26 metres tall with a trunk more than 7 metres around. The forester Konstantin Baikushev measured it in 1897, hence the name. It is the oldest conifer in Bulgaria.
365 steps to the tower
A nature trail with benches along the way leads to an observation tower above Razlog. From the top you see the whole valley: Bachevo, Banya, Godlevo, Razlog and Bansko, with the Pirin and the Rila around them. Most beautiful in autumn and winter, when there is snow on the peaks.
St. Theodore Church
A small church from 1614, half built into the ground, high up in a mountain village in the Rila. From the outside it looks like a small fort. Inside every wall is painted, with some 460 figures more than four hundred years old.
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