
The Parangalitsa Reserve
The Parangalitsa Reserve is one of four nature reserves in Rila National Park. The other three are Skakavitsa, Ibar, and The Central Rila Reserve. All together, they comprise an area of 16,222.1 hectares or 20% of the park’s total territory. The Rila Nature Reserves are included in the United Nations list of national parks and reserves.
Parangalitsa was declared a nature reserve by a Decree № 8517 of the Council of Ministers on December 30, 1933, just one day after Silkovia, Bulgaria’s first nature reserve, was granted that status. The Parangalitsa Reserve, which is located on the southwest slope of the Rila Mountains, covers an area of 1,509 hectares. In March 1977, the reserve was added to the list of biospheres recognized by UNESCO under the auspices of its “People and Biospheres” program.
The name of the reserve comes from the Greek word “parangalos”, which means “forbidden”.
Parangalitsa is home to one of the oldest spruce forests in Europe. The trees there are on average over 200 years old. The forests offer favorable conditions for the growth of more than 290 species of larger flora and a wide range of fauna, many of which are listed in Bulgaria’s Red Book of endangered and protected species.
Rila National Park Administrative Offices:
Tel: +359 73 88 05 37,
Tel: +359 73 88 10 23
Rila National Park Visitor Center at Panichitsa:
Tel: +359 701 56 757;
Tel: +359 884 111 417
Park Offices Blagoevgrad:
Tel: +359 884 111 401
Belitsa:
Tel: +359 884 111 402
Yakoruda:
Tel: +359 884 111 403
Belovo:
Tel: +359 884 111 404
Kostenets:
Tel: +359 884 111 405
Borovets:
Tel: +359 884 111 406
Beli Iskar:
Tel: +359 884 111 407
Govedartsi:
Tel: +359 884 111 408
Dupnitsa:
Tel: +359 884 111 409
The Rila Monastery Forest Reserve:
Tel: +359 884 111 455
e-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.rilanationalpark.bg
Visits in the reservation are performed only along the determined and marked path for visitors. No diverting of the visitors from the path when passing through it and entering the reservation is allowed, as well as polluting with domestic and other waste, picking, gathering, cutting, uprooting or other harming of plants, catching, killing or disturbing the animals, lighting fire and camping.
VISITOR AND TOURIST INFORMATION CENTER OF NATIONAL PARK “RILA” PANICHISHTE
Contacts
Tel: +359 701 56757
Tel: +359 884 111417
e-mail: [email protected]
resort settlement of Panichishte, 2650, municipality of Sapareva Banya;
Mailing address: 60, Panichishte Str., town of Sapareva Banya
Services
The center provides tourist information.
Virtual map
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