HISTORICAL PERSONALITIES
   The region of National Park 'Central Balkan' is a birthplace for some of the most active Bulgarian personalities who left a significant trace in the history of Bulgaria. The many museums and historical monuments testify to that.
   The house-museums in the area include the 'Ivan Vazov' house in the town of Sopot, the native house of Vassil Levski in the town of Karlovo, the 'Hristo Botev' house and the Botev's School in the town of Kalofer, the Vrabevata and the Yordanovata houses with the rose distilleries and the Hadjiganchovata house in the town of Klissura.

During the difficult years of the Turkish oppression an elementary school, a school for self-instruction and later a class and a girls’ school were opened in Klissura. A large number of educational specialists were prepared in the town during that time – the so-called “teacher-deacons”.

The prominent Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev was born in the town of Kalofer on 25.12.1847 old style (or 06.01.1848 new style).

Marko Balabanov, a prominent resident of Klissura, was a highly educated and talented man of letters.

Klissura is the birthplace of the prominent Bulgarian educator and writer Rashko Il. Bluskov (1819 - 1884), the founder of the first Bulgarian pedagogical journal.

Ivan Bogorov is one of the most eminent encyclopedists of the Bulgarian Revival period - a doctor of medicine by education, he was also very much concerned by business matters, economics, geography, industry, transportation, philology, journalistics. He had a leading role among the Builders of the Bulgarian literary language with his First Grammar of Bulgarian Language.

Vasil Levski was the greatest Bulgarian revolutionary against the Turkish yoke. The Bulgarian people and his associates called him “the Apostle of Freedom”. Levski was the ideologist of the National Bulgarian Liberation movement, founder of the Internal revolutionary organization and the Central Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee.

Ivan Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in June 27, 1850 in Sopot, a town situated in the Rose valley of Bulgaria. Ivan Vazov inherited series of human virtues from his father. His mother excessively influenced his development.

Hristo Prodanov was born in 1943 in the town of Karlovo. He conquered mount Everest along the western ridge alone, without an oxygen set, on 20 April 1984. He will remain there on this eternal and majestic mountain forever.

Rayno Popovich is a Bulgarian teacher and man of letters. In 1812 together with A. Hadjikrinchev he opened the first Hellenic-Bulgarian school