Bansko Liberation Day

Bansko marks its liberation with a five-day festive program

Bansko will mark the city's Liberation Day - October 5th - with a five-day program packed with diverse cultural, educational, and sporting events.

October 1 - Thursday

  • 11.00 - "The Princess and the Pea", puppet theater, Great Hall of the Nikola Vaptsarov - 1894" National Theatre
  • 11.30 - "Bansko remembers and continues", a celebration on the occasion of October 5th for the elementary school students of the "Neofit Rilski" Sofia University Museum of the Mountain and the People
  • 18:30 - "Camera! It works. Filming location: Bansko". Screening of the film "Sun over Pirin" from 1952 and "Film News 40/1977" from 1977 with an introduction by the film expert from the Bulgarian National Film Foundation - Dr. Rosen Spasov. Tourist Information Center

October 2 - Friday

  • 10.00 - "On the Trail of the Past: Let's Discover the History of Bansko Together", open lesson for students Museum Complex - Bansko
  • 15:30 - National Chess Tour "Asenevtsi" Ceremonial Hall of the National Chess Club "Nikola Vaptsarov 1894"
  • 17:30 -"About that shrine", students from the 4th grade of the National Primary School "St. Paisii Hilendarski" talk about October 5th Tourist Information Center

October 3 - Saturday

  • 10.00 - Children tour guides at the museum
  • 10.00 - "Bansko sport without screens" sports games for all children, City Park
  • 13.00 - 18.00 - Children's Cinema Panorama. Tourist Information Center

October 4 - Sunday

  • 16:30 - "A Banska Bystrica from Paris" opening of an exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Nikolay Radonov Museum of the Mountain and People
  • 18:00 - ..... and for freedom!", concert-performance by Banski Starcheta, Ensemble "Pirin" and Trio "Idna" Large hall of the Nikola Vaptsarov - 1894" National Theatre

October 5 - Monday

  • 09.30 - Solemn Divine Liturgy, Holy Trinity Church
  • 10.00 - Open Day at the Bansko Museum Complex
  • 10.30 - Laying of wreaths and flowers in front of monuments and memorial plaques
  • 18:00 -Remembrance in front of the monument "Bansko remembers the heroes"