The most admired winter sports destination of Europe is Bulgaria. It has ski-resorts like Bansko and it hopes to host the Winter Olympics in 2014. Pamporovo, a purpose-built ski centre, the southern-most in Europe, with 120 days of guaranteed sunshine during a winter ski season of 5 months, and Borovetz, the original Bulgarian winter resort, founded by Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria in 1896. In Bansko, which has become a great favourite with investors, a number of outstanding apartments, totally new developments, are appearing on the market. Here the ski resort grew up in an old market town, with many memorials of the Bulgarian National Revival. Sofia has been a major city in the region of south east Europe, since Roman times. Then known as Serdica, it took its present name from the 5th century Church of St.Sophia, close to the more recent gold-domed Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevski, the pride of the Capital, since 1878, of the revived Bulgarian state. With its broad avenues and lush, green parks, its theatres, high-capacity 4 and 5-star hotels, cafes and restaurants, its fashionable boutiques and new shopping malls, Sofia has become, and continues to developing into, an elegant city, with an ever-growing attraction for Foreign business and residential investment. The continental climate is pleasant in summer and mild in winter.

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