It is located in the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, on the banks of the Umishka River in Pazardzhik oblast, and is close to the towns of Peshtera and Krichim.

Historical records show the township was established at some point in the 16th-17th century, built over the ruins of an earlier settlement.

The founders of the new town were Bulgarian emigrants from the western part of Aegean Macedonia, from the vicinity of Kostur.

(Source=Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer) Web page: http://www.bratsigovo.bg/ The town is being developed as a balneological center.

There is a cold mineral water spring (18-26 C) with the flow rate of 120 liters per minute at the distance of 500 metres west of it.