Chepelare

PROPERTIES FOR SALE IN CHEPELARE

The beautiful town of Chepelare lies at 1150 m of altitude, at 75 km to the South of Plovdiv and 10 km to the North of the resort Pamporovo. This is the perfect place for a family vacation at reasonable prices. Chepelare is a wonderful resort for the ski sport - it has the longest ski run in the region (5200 m) with a double seat chair lift, a ski school and snowboard. One of the main activities in Chepelare municipality is the tourism. The following kinds of tourism are well developed: winter ski tourism, summer mountain hiking, country tourism, and culture tourism.Chepelare Municipality is located in the middle parts of Rhodope Mountains, on the upper course of the river Chaya. Its average sea elevation is 1200m. It bounders the following municipalities: Smolyan, Laki, Devin, Assenovgrad, Rhodopi.

Chepelare municipality covers an area of 384 sq. km - 73% of it - forests, 14% - common pastures, 11% - arable land. Pamporovo, one of Bulgaria's two main international ski resorts as well as 10 villages - Pavelsko, Hvoina, Zabardo, Malevo, Orehovo, Bogoutevo, Ostritsa, Lilekovo, Zornitsa, Progoled are located on the rest 2% of the area. Located 230 km of Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria, 80 km south of the thousand-year-old town of Plovdiv and only 10 km of Pamporovo, Chepelare has won recognition as an administrative, economical and cultural centre.

Surrounded by greenery and flowers the highland town of Chepelare is situated in a picturesque way on the two banks of the Chaya River.There is a chain of small family hotels, which offer a boarding holiday with all the facilities and the home comfort, so much desired by the holidaymakers. Sitting by the sparkling fire with a glass of the finest wine, you will enjoy the human contact with your hospitable hosts. Each family hotel offers a ski-room, and a children’s ski club "Snowman" has specially been opened. Chepelare has its own ski area, Mechi Chall (Bear Peak), located at the outskirts of town. A double chairlift to the 1,820-meter summit accesses two runs (one advanced, the other intermediate). The skiing infrastructure is well developed, the comfortable double-chair lift, with total length 2471m takes 500 skiers to the top of the mountain just for 17min, and two ski tows and ski-rooms are available.Several hotels in Chepelare offer ski-equipment. A biathlon run and a shooting range are located in Chepelare as well as a children ski tow, sports area including two tennis courts and a volleyball playground, hall for volleyball and table-tennis, indoor swimming pool, sauna, hotel. The pleasant transitional climate strongly influenced by the Aegean sea, the century-old spruce, pine and fir forests, the well developed infrastructure, recreation and entertainment facilities make Chepelare an attractive winter and summer resort. The town has the cleanest air and the highest number of sunny days in the country but despite all that sunshine; enough precipitation falls to provide the area with plenty of snow.Just 2 km away from the town there are two Alpine ski tracks, "Mechi Chal 1"(3 200 m long) and "Mechi Chal 2" (5 200 m), which are among the best ones in Europe.The 22 family hotels in Chepelare offer you accommodation at any time of the year. Their total capacity is around 250 beds. Perhaps you will make up your mind to stay here? To try a bit of skiing or to climb up the steep mountain paths leading to some of the peaks. You won’t regret it!

Source: ICB Properties Bulgaria