Chepelare
Chepelare is a popular mountain resort in Bulgaria, offering ski vacations below the ski slopes of the Mechi Chal Mount. It is famous as the winter Olympic capital of Bulgaria. The town has decades-long traditions in the sport and in the ski and snowboard manufacturing and it is the birthplace of the only ever Bulgarian winter Olympic champion — the biathlonist Ekaterina Dafovska who won a gold medal in Nagano, 1998.