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Important information

During the Easter holidays, the territory of Rila Monastery Nature park will be closed for visitors.

Important message

During the Easter holidays, the territory of Rila Monastery Nature park will be closed for visitors.

The Green Symbols of Rila Monastery Nature Park

for understandable reasons, the traditional celebration of Forest Week will not take place in the way we would all like, visiting events at Rila Monastery Natural Park. However, this does not prevent us from offering you an interesting virtual walk through the territory At the park, which the famous Bulgarian writer Ivan Vazov felt like his home: " I'm home now. Around mountains And peaks sticking out; forests high, wild noise; streams, crystal and sparkling." Ivan...

Forest Week - the history of the holyday

The Forestry Guild celebrates its "Forest Week" every year in the first full week of April. This year marks the 95th anniversary of its first commemoration, although actions to restore, manage and conserve the Bulgarian forests begin immediately after the Liberation in 1878. The newly created state initially establishes security units for foot and horse forest guards from local administrations. One year later, on July 5, 1879, an independent Sector for Forestry Supervision...