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Velingrad
Information: Velingrad is located in the most picturesque part of the Western Phodopi Mountains – The Chepino Valley. The unique combination of climate, mineral waters and wonderful nature makes the town a preferable tourist destination for recreation, treatment and rest. The town is at 750-780m above sea level. The climate is temperate and favourable. The summer is cool, the winter mild and snowy and autumn is warmer than spring. The average annual temperature is about 10 to 15C˚. The length of sunshine is great. They say that Velingrad has got the greatest number of sunny days throughout the year – about 300. The fur-tree forest, the strong sunshine and the clear mountain air create conditions which have a positive influence on the organism of humans.
The greatest wealth of Velingrad and the region are its water resources.
For that reason Velingrad is called “The Blue Pearl of the Rhodopi Mountains”.
The basic water resources are the rivers, the dams, the Karsts and mineral water springs. The greatest Karsts spring on the Balkan Peninsula named “Kleptuza” is a mere wonder of nature, from which every second a 570l of ice-cold water jet out on the surface. They fill in the two artificial lakes and next to them the trout breeding pool. The greatest part of its popularity Velingrad owes to its multiple and various hot mineral water springs – 78 in number with a debit totaling to 14 million l/day. The waters are nitric, sodium and fluoric with variable anion contents and mineralization as well as with great variety of rare elements.
The wonderful nature, the curious local crafts and traditions, the monuments of history and the hospitality of the population add to the attractiveness of Velingrad as a tourist destination.
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BULGARIA, Sofia, 48 Otets Paisii, str., fl.1/next to Pirotska str./, Telephone: (++359 2) 831 01 87, Fax:(++359 2) 931 14 61, Å-mail: |
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