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Spa and Turkish Baths in Bulgaria's Velingrad
Рубрика: Tourism Източник: Velingrad is a small mountain resort town, the most beautiful and most famous among the Bulgarian balneological resorts. It lies at the western end of Chepino Valley, one of the most attractive parts of the Rhodopa Mountains in Southern Bulgaria. There are 70 sources of mineral water with curative and preventive properties.You can reach Velingrad by car, bus or train. The train leaves from the town of Septemvri, situated down in the Thracian plain, to go into the gorge of the Chepinska River, where you can marvel at magnificent sights up in the mountains, arriving in Velingrad in two hours.
Velingrad's mineral water is famous all over the world. Bulgaria's most eminent opera bass Nikolay Gyaurov was born in Velingrad and he used to take his spouse Mirella Frenni there and even the world-famous conductor Herbert von Karajan, who fell in love with the little town.