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Town of Bratsigovo

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Bratsigovo is a town in Southern Bulgaria. It is located in the District of Pazardjik and is close to the towns of Peshtera and Krichim. The town is the administrative center of the Municipality of Bratsigovo.

 

Location

Town of Bratsigovo is an essential climate-balneology resort and attractive destination for many tourists all over the world because of the fantastic combination of a picturesque natural beauties, cultural and historical treasures. Bratsigovo nestles at the vicinity of West Rhodopies. It is situated terraced down in the South-Eastern part of the valley, named after the town, at about 420 m above sea-level. It stretches onto both sides of Umishka river facing South-West.

History

 

Historical records prove the existence of Bratsigovo as of the 16th century. It was the continuation of the destroyed by fire and ruined settlement of Prevren. Evidence was found during excavation and construction works in the town and its surrounding areas according to which these sites were inhabited by Thracians and Slavs - coins of the time of Philip of Macedonia and Justinian II, a bronze statuette of the Goddess Athena Palada, a Roman road. During the 17 th century Bulgarian people from the region of Nevrokop moved to Bratsigovo to work in the mines (mulvatsite). Emigrants from the Kostur region (Macedonia) came here at the end of the 18th century, too.
A monastery school was opened in the town in 1831 and a new mutual aid school with secular training opened its gates in 1848. Gradually later on a girl's school and an intermediate secondary school were opened as well. Bratsigovo little by little turned into a big Rhodope settlement with well-developed crafts. The citizens of Bratsigovo demonstrated particularly notable skills in the field of construction creating their own Bratsigovo School of Architecture and leaving long-lasting traces in the architectural appearance of a lot of settlements in the Balkan Peninsula. It goes without saying that the masterpieces in the town of Bratsigovo itself add up to a lot more than one or two in number.
The Trendafil (Rose) People's Chitalishte (reading room or community centre) was created in 1874 under the management of Vassil Petleshkov turning into the second centre of enlightenment in the town. The first women's society Nadezhda (Hope) was founded the following year, too.

Tourism and recreation 

The town is developing as a balneological centre, too. There is a cold mineral water spring (18-26C) with the flow rate of 120 liters per minute at the distance of 500 metres west of it. There is a balneo-sanatorium built up here. The mineral water treats some skin diseases, the nervous system, kidney related diseases and others. There is a nice park and a country-houses zone around it.

  Sources: intenet pages Journey.Bg, official website of Bratsigovo

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