Borovets

Borovets was originally established at the end of the nineteenth century as a hunting place for the Bulgarian rulers when General Tantilov, then a lieutenant colonel, built the first vacation villa, and subsequently Ferdinand I of Bulgaria built the Tsarska Bistritsa palace.

Borovets has a humid continental climate (Dfb) with long, cold, and snowy winters and short, warm, and rainy summers with cool nights.The ski resort is at an altitude of 1350 m. 58 km of marked pistes cover the generally north facing slopes up to an altitude of 2560 m, with many runs terminating near the village center allowing skiers to ski almost to their hotel door.

For night skiing there is a different lift pass that has to be bought separately at the kiosks on the pistes.

33 km of cross country trails are designed according to the requirements of FIS (Federation Internationale de Ski), although they cancelled the last two cross-country events to be held in Borovets, in 2009 and 2010.

[citation needed] It is located near the resort of Borovets and is a huge stone rock whose walls rise above the valley of the Golyama Slivnitsa River.

The distance from the top to its foot is 135 m. At its upper part is a flat rocky ground, secured by a metal railing, from which there is a scenic view of the mountain slopes and the forested abyss.

The terrain is mostly flat and the transition from Borovets to the Black Rock takes just over an hour of peaceful walking.

The starting point of the eco route is one of the main streets of the resort, which leads to an equestrian base on the outskirts of Borovets.

In this abyss after September 9, 1944, 60-70 people were killed without trial and sentence (their exact number is still unknown) by Samokov, the villages of Beli Iskar and Belchin.

For the victims of the communist regime, writer Georgi Markov is writing a book entitled The Black Rock.