Hotel Rila

With light and pleasant en suite rooms and apartments and a spacious restaurant, our hotel at the foot of Mount Rila is the ideal location for discovering the great outdoors.

Named after the highest mountain in the Balkan Peninsula, we provide the ideal base for an active or relaxing holiday. You can hike or bike through the surrounding countryside or enjoy some of our very own beauty treatment.

We have business facilities and free wireless internet if you have important work to address. Our restaurant seats over 200 people and can be used for functions and events. The children will love their own section and our homemade sweets.

Rooms: 50
Rate: 36 - 47 EUR

The hotel is the perfect place to stay if you are on a business trip or if you are into outdoor sports activities. It is also suitable for a stopover when travelling to Greece or other destinations. The Rila hotel is a quiet and peaceful place, convenient for seminars and business meetings.

Apart from the listed facilities business guests can rent offices, there is conference hall with 70 places, a dentist, a DHL courier service, a taxi service, a gambling room and a cash dispenser on site.

Our classic Rilena 3-star restaurant offers traditional meals from Bulgarian and foreign cuisines as well as delicious home-made pastry. It has a capacity of 150 guests plus 50 seats outdoors and its own children's playground. The restaurant is the most popular place in Dupnitsa for celebrating marriages and other events as well as for cocktails and gala parties.

In the south-western part of Bulgaria the highest mountain of the Balkan Peninsula is situated. Its name Rila is of Slavonic origin and comes from the name Rula, which means "Water Mountain". The name perfectly matches the mountain's characteristics. There are more than 150 lakes and a great number of rivers and streams rising here. At the banks of one of them lies the town of Dupnitsa.

Dupnitsa is situated 500 meters above sea level, at the crossroads of the main international road E-79, which connects Bulgaria with Greece, the Adriatic, Istanbul and the road to the western European countries through Macedonia and Serbia. Dupnitsa has become the centre of the south-western part of Bulgaria.

Places to see:
- Famous Rila Monastery
- Village of Stob, known for its unique rock formations
- Village Sapareva banya, built on the site of an ancient Tracian and famous for its mineral springs
- Mountain village Panichishte and the Rila Lakes

Location:
- 69 km south of Sofia
- 38 km south-east of Kyustendil
- 33 km north of Blagoevgrad
- 40 km west of Samokov