Apriltsi has recently developed into an attractive mountain resort with its renovated recreation facilities, new private hotels and restaurants, modern nightclubs and cafes, swimming pools. Apriltsi offers its visitors opportunities for fishing, mountaineering horse-riding, luxurious hunting centre, fascinating picnic sides and bathing by the riverbank. Artificially formed of four villages today the town attracts more and more tourists and investors. A new lift and golf course are in the future plans of the municipality. There are many places in the town of Apriltsi where the spine of Balkan mountain seems to be with in a hand distance. Unknown for most foreigners at the time the town of Apriltsi has turned into an attractive place for the investors in the last years. The prices of the real estates in the region are going up. The region around Apriltsi is one of most prospective regions perfect for developing traditional and alternative tourism. A new town plan forming many new plots of land is forthcoming to be accepted. In fact wherever you look at the area this is not merely a town. Long time ago it arose Felix Caniz admiration visiting the valley in 1871 and comparing it to the most splendid regions in Europe. The town affords magnificent and unforgettable view. Under the forest flange endless meadows, orchards, raspberry and potato fields, surround by small oaks, yoke elm and cornel trees are spreading. Even now one will hardly find so wild and untouched by the modern time place where nature is the sole master. You can enjoy the coolness during hot summer nights, mild and sunny winter and crisp and mountain air. Not only have the magnificent sceneries turned Apriltsi into a unique place. The town preserves much history also. Here is the picturesque monastery with charnel house of the April uprising casualties. Bridges, fountains and stone plates bring the atmosphere of old times. Near the town many significant and beautiful historic monuments of Bulgaria keep Bulgarian culture throughout the centuries. The Troyan monastery is only at 20 km away. Nearby the National exhibition of the folk crafts halls in the village of Oreshak opened all year around, can be visited. Warm mineral pools in the villages of Chiflik and Shipkovo are only 35 km away. In the last years the town of Apriltsi has turned into an attractive mountain resort with renewing recreation facilities. The town of Troyan spreads out along the banks of the Beli Osum River at the northern foothill of the Troyan Balkan Mountain. It is a town with opulent traditions. Articles of the modern masters of art crafts and the applied arts not only from Troyan and region but from all over the country, often of foreign guests, are exhibited in the numerous halls there. Beklemeto is a resort tourist complex in the area of the same name, 22 km to the southwest from the town and 3 km under the Troyan Pass in the Troyan Balkan Mountain (about 1300 meters above sea level). A great part of the Troyan Balkan Mountain is within the boundaries of the Central Balkan National Park within the framework of which the Steneto and Kozya Stena Biosphere Reserves are located. The first is included in the list of UNESCO and comprises an area of 3602.4 hectares.