The Bulgarian ski resort BANSKO will be included in the list of 400 European cities carrying the title of sports capitals Bansko defended its nomination for European Sport city for 2017. In the past few days the accreditation committee of the European Capitals and Cities of Sport association (ACES Europe) led by its president Gian Francesco Lupattelli were in the resort in order to assess the nomination. A...
For the second consecutive year the concessionaire bansko ski area - "Ulen", Announced Promotional Discounts a month before the official opening of the winter campaign. From 15 to 30 November at the coffers of starting the gondola lift and in the store on the makssport " in Sofia on bull. "Bulgaria" No 81 all seasonal cards will be sold with 200 lv. Cheaper. So the adults will be out 1300 lv., for...
Bansko’s mayor Georgi Ikonomov issued an order to cancel yesterday’s state of distress in the city. The state of distress has been announced due to the large amount of rain in the last 24 hours that led to a raise in the levels of the Glazne, Banderishka and Damyanitsa rivers, and caused material damages to several restaurants on the territory of Bansko’s ski area, as well as the destruction of two...
A state of distress was announced in Bansko as the Glasne river went out of its bed and three bridges were carried away by the waters. Some of the ski runs and some restaurants nearby have suffered damages. Fortunately, for the time being no citizens have been hurt, reports StrumaBg. Currently the employees of the Civil Protection department, firefighters and other authorities are working to keep the...
Sarah Lewis, general secretary of the International Ski Federation and general secretary of the International Winter Sports Association, visited shortly the country in order to discuss with the minister of Sports Krassen Kralev the preparation of Bansko for hosting the three starts of the World Snowboard cup for men and women in February, and the possibility that our country apply for hosting the World Ski...
The depot for household waste will serve more than 60 000 residents of the four municipalities of Razlog, Bansko, Yakoruda, and Belitsa. The inauguration ribbon was cut by Bulgaria’s prime minister Boyko Borissov, the minister of regional development and urbanization Lilyana Pavlova, the minister of Environment and waters Ivelina Vassileva, the governor of Blagoevgrad region Bisser Mihaylov, the mayor...
Christmas and New Year and January School Holidays Bulgaria: Saturday 24th December 2016 to Wednesday 4th January 2017. UK: 19th December 2016 to 2nd January 2017 (Northern Ireland from 21st December 2016, Scotland to 7th January 2017) Greece: 24th December 2016 to 7th January 2017 Romania: 19th December 2016 to 10th January 2017 Israel: 26th December 2016 to 1st January 2017 Russia: 1st January 2017 to...
Bansko is listed at 19th position among the best 20 ski resorts in Europe, shows the classification by the British “Telegraph”. The whole list includes one of the most popular winter destinations. The British newspaper also says that our ski resort is situated in Pirin National park and is becoming more and more popular with the Brits due to its low prices and good conditions for tourism. Bansko is a...
The Council of Ministers has approved the building of a conductive water main in Bansko. The water main will connect Karamanitsa -2, Karamanitsa -3, and Usipo, and the building will start at the beginning of November. The new water main will solve the problem with the insufficiently of drinking water in the upper part of the resort. We are waiting for the timeframes defined by the law to expire, so we...
The international publishing house Condé Nast placed Pirin national park at the fourth place in its rating of the world’s most beautiful parks “one must see in their lifetime”. The top five includes the Pembrokeshire park in Wales at number 2, the Italian Gran Paradiso at number 3, and Mount Olympus in Greece at number 5. For Pirin the publishing house says on its site that the area is remarkable...
