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Melnik is a town in Southwestern Bulgaria. It is located in Blagoevgrad District, Municipality of Sandanski.
This is the smallest town in Bulgaria. Melnik is located in a mountainous area in the southwest skirts of the Pirin Mountain. It is situated in a picturesque area 22 km southeast of the town of Sandanski at 437 m above sea level.
The climate is transitional mediterranean with summer minimum and winter maximum rainfall.
The Melnik River, a left tributary of the Struma River, flows through the town.
For nature lovers there is a direct path that passes through the natural phenomenon Melnik Pyramids. .
Melnik is the starting point for the Pirin hut and Malina hut.
The town is part of the 100 National tourist sites of the Bulgarian Tourist Union.
The main livelihood is shown in the town museum - the wine-making from the local Melnik vine.
The Rozhen Monastery is located 7 km away from Melnik. It is the largest monastery in Pirin Macedonia and one of the several medieval Bulgarian monasteries, relatively well preserved to this day.
In the past, the monastery was stauropigial. Today it is subordinate to the Nevrocopian Diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
The Church of the Holy Birth of the Holy Mother of God ” the monastery later gave its name to the nearby village of Rozhen. The architecture, construction conservation and restoration of the monastery were completed in 1981. The first restoration and conservation work on frescoes, icons and carvings began in the late 1960s and were completed in the early 1990s. At 200 meters east of the Rozhen Monastery is the tomb of the Bulgarian revolutionary Yane Sandanski, who lived in the monastery at the end of his life. He is buried next to the church. St. Cyril and Methodius, built between 1912 and 1914 on his initiative.
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