Bansko News April, 2008

2008/04/10

A brand new hospital is to be constructed in the Bansko Mountain resort in southwest Bulgaria, the Blagoevgrad newspaper "Vyara" reported.

Thus the largest winter resort in the Balkans is finally going to have its own hospital as it has used so far the medical facilities of the nearby town of Razlog.

The press service of the Bansko Municipality announced that the team of the architectural bureau "Tsentar" Single Member Ltd made a presentation of the large-scale project before the...

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2008/04/01

More than 600 000 tourists have visited Bulgaria's hotspot mountain resort of Bansko since the start of the winter season, the mayor said.

Britons and Russians account for the bigger part of the tourist flow into the resort, which welcomed for the first time holidaymakers from Greece coming mostly for the weekend, Bansko mayor Alexander Kravarov told Darik radio.

According to him Bansko's skiing conditions in 2008 were better than those during the previous year.

"We are very pride...

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