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Extract from the Velingrad Travel Guides:
With its diverse springs, excellent climate and leafy parks,
VELINGRAD
is one of Bulgaria's most popular spa towns, although those not intent on taking a cure will find little else to do here. It consists of three former Pomak villages originally named Kamenitsa, Ldzhene and Chepino - lumped together in 1948 and renamed after local partisan heroine Vela Peeva. Both the train and bus stations are a few minutes' walk east of the modern centre, which in turn lies just to the east of
Ldzhene
, where Velingrad's oldest baths, the
Velyova banya
(founded in the sixteenth century, although the buildings a... read the whole Velingrad Travel Guides...
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