SANDANSKI

The town is located in the Sandanski-Petrich valley, at the foot of Pirin. 12 km from Sandanski is the Rupite area with the church "St. Petka", built thanks to the fortune teller Baba Vanga from Petrich. Near Sandanski are Melnik (the smallest town in Bulgaria) and Rozhen Monastery.
The city is located at 240-300 meters above sea level and is the warmest Bulgarian city, as the duration of sunshine exceeds 2450 hours, creating conditions for year-round sun-air procedures. The air in Sandanski has the lowest humidity in all of Bulgaria and is suitable for the treatment of asthma, allergies and other diseases. The city is world famous as a natural health resort and spa resort.
The healing properties of the warm mineral waters and the mild favorable climate in these places make them convenient for human settlement in ancient times. The first human settlements on the site of today's town of Sandanski date back to the second millennium BC. The settlement arose around the mineral springs during the Bronze Age in the late thirteenth and early twelfth centuries BC. For the earliest history of the city there is information from sources of Thucydides and Polybius, which mentions that it was inhabited by Thracian tribes since the V century BC. The Thracians of the Medes tribe founded the village called Medius. In the 4th century BC they were conquered by Philip II of Macedon, and from the 2nd century BC by the legions of the Roman Republic. It was during the conquest of the Medes by the Romans, during some of their campaigns as a prisoner in the Apennine Peninsula fell and the Thracian Spartacus. Later, the Roman settlement on the site of today's city was called Dezudava.