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Central Southern Bulgaria >> Pavel Banya
The northern slopes of the Surnena Sredna Gora start to the south of it. The town is 185 km from Sofia, 22 km to the west of Kazanluk, 24 km from Kalofer, 54 km south from Gabrovo, 86 km to the north of the city of Plovdiv and only 4 km from the main Sofia-Karlovo-Bourgas motorway. It is a balneological and mineral water centre of national and international importance.
History. Historical data on the settlement is scarce but excavations (during the construction of the new sanatorium - 1939-1940) brought to light remains of a Roman bath and an ancient Christian church, which seem to indicate that local mineral waters were in active use as early as the days of the Roman Empire. The settlement, as it is today, was founded during the Russian-Turkish War of Liberation. Present. Pavel Banya owes its popularity to the healing mineral waters it is endowed with. They spring from seven natural and drilled-in sources, all having similar chemical composition. Their total output rate is 16 liters per second at the temperature of up to 63°C. Such water is excellent for healing degenerative disorders and inflammations of the joints, chronic rheumatism, infectious arthritis, deforming osteoarthritis, the Behterev syndrome, inflammation of the tendon, of the joint "pockets", post-traumatic and orthopedic conditions, post bone-fracture conditions, post dislocation and post sprain conditions, anchylosis of the joints, inborn problems of the pelvis joints. Treatment results have been particularly effective in cases of deformations resulting from spine problems and the peripheral nervous system, blocked movements of the spine joints with painful and limited ability to move, discopathic states of all kinds - plexus, radiculitis, etc. Diseases of the central nervous system, gynecological problems are successfully treated. One characteristic feature of the Pavel Banya Sanatorium is that it treats - with particular success - disc hernia. The resort hosts a big recuperation centre with more than 500 beds and modern medical equipment. There are many other balneological and supporting facilities. It also has 200 decares of park of various broad-leaved and coniferous trees, close to which there is an open-air sport and beach complex (an Olympic size swimming pool).
Accommodation: The recuperation complex has a 2-star hotel (22 double rooms, 2 single rooms and 2 suites). The Knyaz Pavel Hotel (120 beds in double rooms). Varna Hotel (1, Goze Delchev Str, 16 beds, a snack bar). Zdravets Hotel (10 beds). Motel (40 beds, 4 suites, coffee bar and canteen with a kitchen). The resort has a sufficient number of catering and entertainment facilities.
Tourist information. At the hotels and at the town hall (tel.: 04361 2260, 3260, 2264, 2148, fax 04361 2094 and telex: 88496).
Transport. Bus and railway lines connect Pavel Banya with the remaining part of the country. Hourly buses to and from Kazanluk. Bus routes to following destinations have a stop at the town: Sofia, Plovdiv, Rousse, Sevlievo and Stara Zagora. The bus station is in the very centre of the town. Pavel Banya railway station (4.5 km north of the town, connected with it by regular bus and private van transport) is a stop along the sub-Balkan Sofia-Karlovo-Bourgas railway line.
Surrounding areas. Two kilometers west is the Dubravata Area, covered with mixed fo¬liage and beautiful meadows. Extremely soothing to the heart and the coronary system as well as the lungs with a healing effect long proved. Two kilometers south is the Izvora (the spring), the waters of which have a most healing effect on the excretory system. The village of Touria (another 4 kilometers south) is the birthplace - and house - of the Bulgarian writer Choudomir and the Nashentsi Ethnographic Hall (Our Folks). 6-7 km to the south is located the village of Gabarevo with Dzhananov's House where Vassil Levski established a revolutionary committee in 1869. At present, the house is hosting exhibition of paintings dedicated to the Apostle of Freedom, as well as an exposition of private belongings of Petrana Klissourova - a graphic painter and poetess. In the neighbouring village of Turnichane, there is a branch of the Kazanluk Art Gallery exhibiting works of the famous painters Dechko Stoev, Stefan Yankoulov, Hristo Forev, the sculptures of Ivan Topalov, as well as the permanent exhibition of the natural wood-plastics of the artist Hristo Yotov. In the village of Gorno Sahrane (7 km to the north) is the "Bate Mitko" entertainment establishment (bar, discotheque, an open-air pool and an exotic zoo, giving home to crocodiles, a jaguar, turtles, roes, deer, mountain goats, parrots etc. Some 10 kilometers to the south on the way to the town of Rakovski and the city of Plovdiv one can see a rare tree (an interesting natural phenomenon) -the Kichest Gabur Tree (the branchy hornbeam tree), now 160 year old. Pavel Banya is the starting point of numerous tourist tracks, which lead throughout the Stara Planina and Sredna Gora Mountains. From the village of Touria one may follow the track to the Sredna Gora chalets- Bratan Chalet (4 hours) and Kavakliika Chalet (3-hour walk, 17 km by car). Stara Planina can be challenged from the village of Skobelevo (about 10 km north of Pavel Banya) for reaching the Mazalat Chalet (4.30 hours), the Sokolna Chalet can be climbed from the village of Gabarevo (2.30 hours). From the village of Tuzha (15 km northwest of Pavel Banya) one can reach the Roussalka Chalet (2.30 hours, 13 km truck road) and Tuzha Chalet (6 hours walk, 25 km truck road).
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