Borovets
Borovets is a ski and mountain resort in Central Western Bulgaria, on the slopes of the Rila mountain range close to the town of Samokov. It's one of Bulgaria's most popular ski resorts and one of the starting points for hiking to Musala, the highest peak in Rila, Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: mountain resort in Sofia Province, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Borovec”, “Borovetz”, “Chamkoria”, “Kurorten kompleks ‘Borovets’”, and “Tjamkorija”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tsarska Bistritsa and Преображение господне.
Tsarska Bistritsa
Photo: Rumensz, Public domain.
Tsarska Bistritsa is a former royal palace in southwestern Bulgaria, high in the Rila Mountains, just above the resort of Borovets and near the banks of the Bistritsa River.
Преображение господне
Church
Photo: Svetoslav Palov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Преображение господне is a church.
Sitnyakovo
House
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sitnyakovo is a summer royal residence in Bulgaria. It is located on Rila mountain. The residence was built on commission by Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. Sitnyakovo is situated in close proximity to the Borovets resort and the Tsarska Bistritsa palace.
Borovets
- Categories: ski resort, settlement formation in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Samokov, Sofia Province, Bulgarian Shopluk, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.2668° or 42° 16′ 1″ northLongitude
23.6074° or 23° 36′ 27″ eastElevation
1,295 metres (4,249 feet)Open location code
8GJ57J84+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 5669133628OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Uzbek—“Borovets” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Боровец”
- Bulgarian: “Курортен комплекс ‘Боровец’”
- Bulgarian: “Чамкория”
- Chinese: “波羅維茲”
- Chinese: “波羅韋茨”
- Czech: “Borovec”
- Dutch: “Borovets”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوروفتس”
- Esperanto: “Borovec”
- Estonian: “Borovec”
- Estonian: “Borovets”
- Finnish: “Borovec”
- Finnish: “Borovets”
- Finnish: “Borovetz”
- Finnish: “Chamkoria”
- Finnish: “Tjamkorija”
- French: “Borovets”
- French: “Borovetz”
- German: “Borovec”
- German: “Borovets”
- German: “Borovetz”
- German: “Borowets”
- German: “Borowetz”
- German: “Borowez”
- Greek: “Μπόροβετς”
- Hebrew: “בורובץ”
- Italian: “Borovec”
- Japanese: “ボロヴェツ”
- Lithuanian: “Borovecas”
- Macedonian: “Боровец”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borovets”
- Norwegian: “Borovets”
- Polish: “Borovec”
- Polish: “Borowec”
- Portuguese: “Borovets”
- Romanian: “Boroveț”
- Russian: “Боровец (горнолыжный курорт)”
- Russian: “Боровец”
- Russian: “Чамкория”
- Serbian: “Боровец”
- Slovenian: “Borovec”
- Slovenian: “Боровец”
- Swedish: “Borovec”
- Swedish: “Borovets”
- Swedish: “Borovetz”
- Swedish: “Chamkoria”
- Swedish: “Tjamkorija”
- Ukrainian: “Боровець (курорт)”
- Ukrainian: “Боровець”
- Uzbek: “Borovets”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Borovets”. Photo: Biso, CC BY 3.0.