Pravets

Town in Sofia Province, Bulgaria

Pravets Coat of arms
42°53′40″N 23°54′56″E / 42.89444°N 23.91556°E / 42.89444; 23.91556
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Sofia Province
Government
• Mayor	Rumen Guninski (BSP)
Area
• Total	46.073 km² (17.789 sq mi)
Elevation	440 m (1,440 ft)
Population (15 June 2020)
• Total	4,363
• Density	95/km² (250/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	2161
Area code	07133
Website	www.pravets.bg

Pravets or Pravetz (Bulgarian: Правец, also transliterated as Pravec, pronounced [ˈpravɛt͡s]) is a town in Pravets Municipality in central western Bulgaria, located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the capital Sofia. Pravets is home town of Pravetz computers.

Pravets has a population of 4,512 people. Mountains surround it, which allows for a mild climate with rare winds. In the outskirts there is an artificial lake used for fishing and recreation. The town is the birthplace of Bulgaria's longtime communist president Todor Zhivkov. The first microprocessor factory in Bulgaria established in Pravets. The computers produced there, which were among the first in Bulgaria, were named Pravetz.

Today, the town is most famous for its computers and technology systems high school and the Hyatt Pravets golf resort complex. There is also a language high school by the name of Aleko Konstantinov. It prepares many students who continue their undergraduate education in Bulgaria, England, the US, Germany, and France. The Professional Computing and Technology Systems high school is one of two technical schools in Bulgaria, which prepares students for the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria, and allows for direct admission to the university to its top students.

Gallery

The coat of arms of Pravets on a billboard
Todor Zhivkov memorial in Pravets
Pravets in summer
Pravets in winter
Pravets in spring
The Palace Hotel
Square
Square

External links

Media related to Pravets at Wikimedia Commons

(in Bulgarian) Professional High School of Computing and Technology Systems (UKTZ, УКТЦ)
Country&Golf in the area
Image Gallery of Pravets
(in Bulgarian) Large Image Gallery of Pravets and the Region