It is located on the northern foothills of the Rhodope Mountains on the geographic border with the Upper Thracian Plain at an altitude of 297 m. The forests around the village cover an area of 2,500 ha.

Forests occupy 2/3 of the village lands and 1/5 of them are artificially made – mainly pine and fir.

The fauna is also very rich and includes species such as hare, fox, wolf, wild boar, golden jackal, European badger, roe deer, deer, mouflon as well as many bird species including eagles and owls.

There are also the remains of the St Nicolas Monastery constructed during the cultural apogee of the Second Bulgarian Empire during the 14th century.

The Church of St Theodore of Tyron was constructed on the place of an older edifice which was destroyed during a flooding in 1848.

The first school in the village was built for several months in 1835 although education had begun in 1800 in a small building with one room.

The modern school named after the prominent Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev includes three buildings.