MOUNTAINS
   The present-day mountain relief in Central Balkan National Park is the product of mighty geological processes, refined over millennia by water and wind. Rounded ridges and high peaks alternate with deep canyons, vertical rock faces and caves.
   The Balkan Range is the central structural mountain strip in the Balkan Peninsula. It is made up of several basic types of rock, most commonly southern Bulgarian granites, sandstone, crystalline schists, etc. At altitudes over 1,800 meters above sea level there is some evidence of glacier activity in the geological past.

Stara planina is the longest (550 km),and the biggest of all mountains.

Тhe “Triglav” massif is one of the most attractive parts in the National park “Central Balkan”. It rises at 2276m above the sea level.

This mountain is part of the high Balkan. Mountain peaks Vejen (2198 m), Bulovanya (2043 m), Tetevenska baba (2070 m), Kartala (2033 m), Paskal (2029 m) and Kositsa (2001 m) all rise over 2000 m above sea level.

In Bulgarian the name of the Lestvitsa Planina Mountain can be associated with the word “les” (in Russian – forest) and should be apprehended as wooded mountain, which suits it. But it is more probable that the mountain has received its name from the transcription of the Russian word “lesnitsa” (ladder), translation of the Greek word “klimas”, which too means ladder. Adapted to the Bulgarian language this is also the name of the Klimash elevation and mountain peaks Golyam Klimash and Malak Klimash.

The Vassiliovska Planina Mountain is the highest part of the pre-Balkan area. Mountain peak Vassiliov (1490 m) is its orographic and hydrographic center. The peak has also given the name of the mountain, from the Greek word “Vassileus” – or Tzar. And indeed, there is something regal in the massive cone of the peak and its plicate lake a mantle slopes.

The name of the Lissets Mountain derives from the names of the Kamen Lissets and the Zemen Lissets mountain peaks. The very word “liss’ means “bare”. The southern slopes and ridges of the two peaks are deforested that is why their names really suit them well. But since the rest of the mountain is normally forested the name “Bare Mountain” does not fit the description of the mountain.