Gorna Bela Rechka (Bulgarian Горна Бела речка) is a small village in the northwestern region of Bulgaria,[2] about 25 kilometers from the Serbian border.

[note 1] Montana, the provincial capital, is situated about 36 km to the northwest.

Montana Province has a climate with hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters.

They found employment caring for the elderly in other European countries, in order to support surviving relatives left at home in Bulgaria.

[8] Because there are no young people left in Gorna Bela Rechka, the situation in the village has changed.

[9][10] In 2015 Francesco Martino wrote the following about the village: “Gorna Bela Rechka is no exception to the sad reality of this region - poor, desolate and sleepy”.

Since then, every year in May, the international Goatmilk Festival takes place, a lively cultural event, where locals and guests are involved and mingle.

It can be singled out because of its residents' heightened awareness of the urban-rural distinction and their conscious attempts at self-positioning within or across it, which is triggered by two factors: past rural-urban migration and the present opening up of the village to the world via the annual Goatmilk Memories Festival.The Goatmilk Festival originated in 2003 due to the initiative of the Bulgarian journalist Diana Ivanova.

With the help of the European program Culture 2000 and numerous sponsors, Bela Rechka finally got a new bell.