National Park Rila is situated in the southwest part of the country, in Rila mountain. The park has a total area of 81,046 hectares and is the largest of the three national parks in Bulgaria as well as one of the largest in Europe. It was declared a natural park on 24 February 1992.

The par...

Pirin National Park is located in the Pirin Mountains, in southwest Bulgaria. The park includes seven municipalities in the district of Blagoevgrad: Bansko, Gotse Delchev, Razlog, Sandanski, Strumyani, Kresna, and Simitli.

In 1962, when Pirin National Park was established, it was known as t...

Musala (Bulgarian: Мусала; from Arabic through Ottoman Turkish: Musalla, "near God" or "place for prayer")  is the highest peak in the entire Balkan Peninsula, standing at 2,925 m (9,596 ft). The summit of the Rila mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria, Musala is the highest peak between t...

During the warm months of the year a special bicycle park offers excellent conditions for keen cyclists with over 20 marked tracks of various difficulty levels.

Borovets is one of the biggest mountain resorts in Bulgaria. It is located at an elevation of 1300 m on the northern slopes of Rila Mountain, some 70 km away from Sofia, approximately 130 km from Plovdiv, and 10 km south of Samokov. The average temperature in January, the coldest month, is around...

The Musala Lakes are located in the Rila Mountains beneath Mount Musala (2925 meters), the Balkan’s highest peak.

The Musala Lakes are part of Rila National Park, declared a protected area on February 24, 1992. In the Rila Range there are more than 120 permanent glacial lakes and roughly 30...