Atoluka

The Rhodope Mountain resort Vassil Petleshkov, also known as Atoluka, is located some 5 km away from the village of Ravnogor, Bratsigovo municipality. Unlikely to the most mountain resorts Atoluka is still a wild place, almost virgin. The place is surrounded by evergreen coniferous woods, which makes it suitable for relax both in the summer and winter. According to the story once upon a time a bey passed through the woods with his beautiful horse – a real stallion (in Bulgarian - at). The bey stopped here to have a break and took his horse to the spring to drink some water. But the water was so cold that the horse died. And that is where the name of the district came from – at (stallion) and the Turkish word ölü (dead). Nowadays, there are 350 villas, 2 stores and 2 restaurants here. The resort was declared a protected area because of its ecologically and the bio-diversity, aimed at protecting the century-old coniferous woods of pine trees and spruces.