Situated at the foot of the Pirin Mountains, Bansko is a favorite tourist destination for guests from different nationalities. Offering a variety of recreation and entertainment opportunities, the city is attractive all seasons of the year.
Bansko combines uniquely and modernly. Cobblestone streets separate modern hotel complexes from typical Bansko houses with wooden verandahs and high walls.

From the 18th to the 19th century there is preserved a unique architecture of the type of Bansko Fortified House. They are built almost entirely of stone, with small lattice windows, high fenced walls, heavy gabled gates and interconnected in narrow and winding cobblestone streets. Behind the thick walls have been preserved the traditions of the inhabitants of Bansko.

Bansko is a true treasury of national values, possessing many remarkable monuments of culture with original architecture and high artistic and historical value. Some of them have national significance:

• St. Trinity Church, built in 1835 with a unique wood-carved iconostasis;
• The Assumption Church, built in 1774;
• House-Museum of N.Y. Vaptsarov;
• Museum House of Neofit Rilski;
• Velyanova house, architectural and ethnographic museum.