Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Vaptsarov's personal belongings are exhibited, while a short video, followed by an audio
tape (English, French or German), provides background.
MUSEUM
Velyanov's House
( 4181; ul Velyan Ognev 5; admission 3 lv; 9am-noon & 2-5pm Mon-Fri)
Velyan-
ov's House features elaborately painted scenes and woodcarvings from the 'Bansko
School' of carving, icon and fresco painting.
Bansko Permanent Icon Exhibition
( 88 273; ul Yane Sandanski 3; admission 3 lv; 9am-noon & 2-5pm Mon-Fri)
This
museum has more Bansko School creations, and houses the most valuable historic icons.
MUSEUM
House Museum of Neofit Rilski
( 2540; ul Pirin 17; admission 3 lv; 9am-noon & 2-5pm Mon-Fri)
Occupying a
former schoolhouse, this house museum exhibits manuscripts by, and photos of, Rilski
(1793-1881), the father of Bulgarian secular education, who created an early Bulgarian
grammar textbook (1835) and a Bulgarian-Greek dictionary.
MUSEUM
Sveta Troitsa Church
(pl Vâzhrazhdane; 7am-7pm)
Sveta Troitsa Church (1835) is surrounded by a 1m thick
and 4m high stone wall, and features magnificent wooden floors and faded murals. It also
hosts Bansko's major landmark: the 30m-high
clock tower
(1850). Until Sofia's Alexan-
der Nevsky Cathedral was completed in 1912, it was Bulgaria's largest church.
CHURCH
Historical Museum
( 88 304; ul Aton 3; admission 3 lv; 9am-noon & 2-5pm)
The Historical Museum,
also called 'Radonova Kâshta' after the building in which it's housed, contains finds dat-
ing back to 6000 BC, plus antique, medieval and 19th-century National Revival-period
items.
MUSEUM
