City of Razlog is situated near to Blagoevgrad in the great valley.
It has rich traditions and customs, and it preserves cultural heritage, churches, and monuments.
Landscape : in the north mountain Rila, in the south: Pirin
From Sofia : 151 km
Names : The previous name of the city was Mehomia - and it was renamed Razlog in 1925.
Here you can see many ancient churches and cultural objects like: "St. Georgi Pobedonosets" (1834).
I was impressed by the nice climate, quite atmosphere in the center and nice renovated buildings, lake and playgrounds. There are many shops, little restaurants, offering traditional dishes of the region. (70 houses of Razlog city are archeological monuments)
House with a restaurant in the center
Nice sculptures of animals near the lake
Impressive ancient Bulgarian calendar, looks like Chinese zodiac signs calendar with carved animals on the stones.
Beautiful lake surrounded by trees, waterfall and a park
Legend about peak "Dautov": This legend tells the story of love between the Turkish girl Leila and her fathers apprentice - Mito. She said, she would become his bride, only if he has the strength to carry her from the lake to the mountain top without any rest! The boy didnt hesitate, but right away accepted the proposal of his master Omer aga, so they went to the peak accompanied by 2 servants. The beloved took time to look at every mountain flower on the way, listened to the bird songs, enjoyed the mountain landscapes and looked at each other gently. Like drunk from happiness which awaits him, Mito carried his beloved Leila and hurried to the top. But in the middle of the way he felt much tired, more and more wth every step, because of the strong blowing counter wind.
The wind felt envy to the two young people in love and started blowing even stronger. Then also appeared thick fog. Mito was confused and strayed from the path. Deadbeat Mito stumbled over a stone, lost the beautiful maiden from his hands, they rolled over the mountain scarp and disappeared in the fog.
The two servants cried out long time, to heaven and earth, but they remained unheard. They searched for them all over the place all day, but didnt find them, so they returned and tell about what happened. People then started to talk, that the two beloved died because of the "blowing wind" in this place. So after many years from that story always there is a strong blowing wind there, from there came the name of the top "Dautov" (means blowing).
Art of fountain
Lovely painted bird houses we saw on the way, along little playground. Their bright colors made me smile, so I captured the moment!
Ever green tall trees are in their homeland here.We`ll visit this town again, specially to attend one of the most famous events - the folklore festival - Koukeri (held after New Year celebration) and folk art "Pirin songs".
I`ll come back again!
[photos by nina nour ]
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