Hotels in Samokov

Hotel Name Town Star Price
Bistrica -
Bul.Tsar Boris Iii 179, Samokov, 		Samokov 3 Star €40.00
Hotel Samokov -
Borovets, Borovets Ski Resort, Sofijagrad 		Samokov 4 Star €26.00

About Samokov

Samokov (Bulgarian: Самоков) is a town in Sofia Province in the southwest of Bulgaria. It is situated in a kettle between the mountains Rila and Vitosha. Due to the suitable winter sports conditions, Samokov, together with the nearby resort Borovets, is a major tourist centre. A 1892 painting by Nikola Obrazopisov of the Samokov SchoolIn the past, Samokov was a centre of handicrafts and art, with notable figures like Zahari Zograf, Hristo Dimitrov and Nikola Obrazopisov. The town's name is a compound word of "samo" and "kov", respectively meaning "self" and the root of the verb "forge, hammer", and comes from the samokov, a mechanical forge powered by water, since the town of Samokov was a major iron producing centre during the last two hundred years (18th-19th century) of Ottoman rule of Bulgaria.

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