Shining Bansko

The municipality and the citizens of Bansko ski resort will polish the city for the opening of the new winter season in the middle of December.

The people from Bansko will clean streets, pavements, green areas from rubbish. This is municipality initiative, which aims to transform Bansko in a cozy place for tourists.
The resort won't be in dust and dirt. Local people already used to the idea they should work harder for one more friendly image of the resort, shared Aleksander Kravarov, mayor of the city for second mandate.
He promised there won't be any problems and also reminded that the resort expects 1 million tourists for season '07-'08.

Bansko ski

The snowboard lovers can enjoy the first on the Balkans fun park where people from all over the world are lead by the passion of the extreme. They can build jumps suiting their taste and abilities.
Every day skiers and snowboarders can take part in the competitions on the new piste on Shiligarnika.
The lifts and pistes operator in Bansko takes care for the maximum comfort of the skier and snowboarders with the exclusive 8-seats Gondola cable car by Dopplemayer, five 4- seat lifts of the latest Doppelmayer models, one 3-seat lift by Poma, 7 drags and 10 baby drags. The total length of the wire equipment in the resort is 26 kilometers. All ski equipment can be used by one chip-card from SkiData.
Huge monitors showing pictures from the different pistes is based on the starting station of the Gondola. Thus people will have more information of the wind and temperature conditions before climbing up on the slope.
Slalom and Giant slalom runs are available. Bansko offers a cross-country track with a total length of 5 km. A 3 km ski run Rollbahn track is situated 2 km far from the town.

Bansko Expects a Million Tourists over This Season

"It is highly probable that as many as one million tourists will visit Bansko this winter," tour-operators forecast. There are 15 000 hotel beds in the resort now, and there will be twice as many as soon as hotels and apartment buildings that are currently under construction are completed. "I see no problem accomodating all the guests of the resort. I guarantee there will be neither water supply restrictions nor outages. We've set aside 25 million levs (1 Euro = 1.95 levs) of municipal money to develop the infrastructure," Bansko Mayor Alexander Kravarov said.

Since the beginning of the construction boom in Bansko the investments in local hotels and apartment buildings has already exceeded one billion Euros.

Bansko arts

Eight young artists from the National Academy of Arts took part in the traditional ten day seminar in wooden plastic arts in Bansko.
The event is initiated by
Winslow Developments and takes place each year with the kind cooperation of the National Academy of Arts and Bansko Municipality.The seminar took place from September 26th.The young academy authors worked under the guidance of associate prof. Petar Bonev. This year the subject, given back in the spring, was the manufacture of “Benches”. The students worked on the timber based on pre approved projects. Currently, the artwork is exhibited in the center of Bansko – in front of the community center, so it can become public knowledge for the citizens. It also pleased the local population and the tourists during the resort city gala day – October 5th. The temporary exhibition will last a week, after which the ready plastic art will decorate the green areas of the holiday lodginds, built by Winslow Developments in the architectural style, specific for Bansko, and will complete their appearance as a cozy place for complete recreation.
Winslow Developments covers all costs for the young artists' stay and provides the necessary materials. “The support of Winslow Developments for the yearly seminar in wooden plastic arts of the National Arts Academy is a logical continuation of the company policy for aiding the development of the young people. Winslow Developments has an established cultural program, as part of the company’s social responsibility, which supports young artists and talents", said Marian Beliakov, manager of the Mountain Residences chain.