Pernik
Pernik is a small city roughly 20 kilometers away from Sofia, just behind the Lyulin mountain. Some people consider Pernik to be a part of the Sofia metropolitan area.
Pernik’s inhabitants, however, are proud of their home city’s millennia old heritage and the glorious history.
Pernik is the home of the famous war chief Krakra who, in the year 1004, won a decisive victory over the vastly more numerous army of the Byzantine emperor Basil II.
![City's central square](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-01-960x640.webp)
![Pernik's city club: Palace of Culture](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-02-960x640.webp)
![Struma river](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-03-960x640.webp)
![Outskirts of the city](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-04-960x640.webp)
![Outskirts of the city](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-05-960x640.webp)
![The view from the ramparts](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-06-824x720.webp)
![Vitosha mountain](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-07-960x640.webp)
![Pernik view](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-08-960x640.webp)
![The Pernik fortress](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-09-960x640.webp)
![In the fortress](https://vk7.eu/i/2019-pernik-10-960x640.webp)