page_title: Aleko, Vitosha
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Aleko, Vitosha / References
caption_attribution_description: Георги Генчев http://www.seebg.net/Genchev/
context_page_description: Aleko is a site on Vitosha Mountain in Bulgaria situated at the northern foothills of Malak Rezen Peak, in the watershed of Yanchevska River draining eastwards towards the village of Bistritsa, Sofia.
  Aleko is the principal tourist and winter sports centre on Vitosha, offering accommodation at Aleko Chalet and few hotels, and several chairlifts, surface lifts and ski runs, cafeterias and restaurants, and ski and snowboard schools. The oldest and most popular ski run is Stenata, while the longest and most difficult one is ‘Vitoshko Lale’ originally built for the 1983 Winter Universiade held on Vitosha. Nowadays Aleko is among Bulgaria's top ski resorts together with Bansko in Pirin Mountain, Borovets in Rila Mountain, and Pamporovo in Rhodope Mountains.
  The site is accessible by a 6.27 km gondola lift from Sofia's suburb of Simeonovo, and by road from the suburb of Dragalevtsi. Aleko is also the starting point of a number of tourist tracks leading to Cherni Vrah and further south to the villages of Chuypetlovo and Yarlovo, to Bistrishko Branishte Nature Reserve to the east, and to Zlatnite Mostove to the northwest.
context_section_description: Bulgaria Ski: Vitosha
  Vitosha Mountain
  Vitosha
  Vitosha Nature Park. Website.
  Zone Bulgaria: Vitosha
  Vitosha Map.
caption: Aleko panorama
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