Tourist attraction
Pamporovo Winter Resort

Great Rhodope nature has gathered around the resort most beautiful scenery. Winter or summer - any time you will enjoy the beauty and serenity here.

There are many ski slopes of varying difficulty. The total length of runs for alpine skiing and cross country ski trails is 30 km, the largest displacement is 470 meters. The facilities are modern and fashionable - 9 trails and 5 lifts, and new machine snow. Here, however, the natural snow stays longer. Pamporovo is also one of the sunniest places in Bulgaria - an average of 240 days a year here the weather is clear. The resort is situated at the foot of Mount Snow, where descend several tracks in the resort. There are conditions to drop rough terrain. Instructors in the ski school will help in organizing the extreme downhill. Available to snowboarders half pipe there. Besides winter resort Pamporovo is a great place for summer vacation. During warmer months, you'll find cool and quiet. Furthermore, the summer season is not as busy as the winter and enjoy a truly peaceful vacation.

In summer there are also many opportunities for leisure. There are day trips to Shiroka Luka, Stoykite, Gela, Solista, Bachkovo and Bachkovo Monastery, Assen fortress Smilyan, and walking routes to nearby Chepelare and Wonderful Bridges Smolyan, Smolyan Lakes, Observatory in Rozhen. The surrounding area has many caves.

For tourists in Pamporovo are built many hotels and villas, as well as remarkable Orthodox Church "Assumption of Mary." Tourists can choose from selki hiking, tennis, bowling, archery, high cycling, skiing, snowboarding and sledding in winter.

If you climb Mount Snow from Studenec cabin about 10 minutes away from the television tower located Orpheus rocks. Below the low, as plainly visible Smolyan Lakes, and somewhere in behind them are fuzzy end houses of Smolyan. Before you is the famous rock "The Bride" and behind them - the highest peak in the Rhodopes - Grand Perelik. The legend says that Orpheus sat here, watching a beauty and compose songs, which sounded a mountain!

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