Pamporovo

Pamporovo ( Bulgarian Пампорово ) is a ski resort in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains and has a bed capacity of 7500 beds.

Pamporovo is located in 1650 meters altitude in the Zentralrhodopen, at the foot of snezhanka Summit ( Bulg Снежанка; 1926 m) in the Oblast Smolyan, Chepelare Municipality. Pamporovo is 160 km southeast of the capital Sofia, 50 km south of Plovdiv, 8 km north of Smolyan and 8 km south of Chepelare.

The resort was created in 1933 northwest of the snezhanka summit. Winters are mild here. The year has 270 days of sunshine. The mean annual temperature is 8 ° C.

Pamporovo is mostly visited by tourists in winter. The season lasts from December to late April, 150 snow days. Almost all of the tourist resort ski slopes start at the Sneschanke Summit. The ski slopes are located on 1925-1400 meters above sea level, they have a total length of 18 km. The ski lifts have a capacity of 7000 people per hour.

The snezhanka Summit is one of the 100 national tourist objects in Bulgaria.