Official Name: | Pastra |
Native Name: | Пастра |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Bulgaria |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Label Position: | Location in Bulgaria |
Subdivision Name: | ![]() |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Kyustendil Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Rila |
Area Total Km2: | 33.948 |
Population As Of: | 2013 |
Population Total: | 151 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Elevation M: | 803 |
Postal Code: | 2631 |
Coordinates: | 42.1167°N 36°W |
Pastra (bg|Пастра) is a small mountain village in the Rila Municipality of Kyustendil Province in south-western Bulgaria. As of 2013, it had 151 inhabitants.[1] It lies at the western foothills of the Rila Mountains on the banks of the Rilska River just outside the borders of the Rila Monastery Nature Park. It is situated at 8 km east of the municipal centre Rila, 12 km west of the Rila Monastery and some 63 km south of the national capital Sofia.[1]
In the Middle Ages the village was part of the Bulgarian Empire. Pastra was first mentioned in written records in the 14th century Rila Charter of Emperor Ivan Shishman (r. 1371–1395), where it was listed as a possession of the Rila Monastery.
It gives its name to the Pastra Glacier in the central part of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.[2]