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Panagyurishte is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, situated in a small valley in the Sredna Gora mountains. There are dozens of Thracian mounds in the vicinity of the town. In one of them - the mound "Mramor", a burial of a Thracian chieftain was discovered. Not far from it, in 1949, the now world-famous Panagyurishte Treasure was discovered, dating back to the 4th-3rd centuries BC. It is made of pure gold and weighs 6,164 kg. Copies of the nine unique vessels are exhibited in the Historical Museum in the town, while the originals are in museums around the world and in Bulgaria.

  Peshtera  ( Bulgarian :  Пещера   [ˈpɛʃtɛrɐ] , sometimes transliterated as  Peštera ) is a town in the  Rhodope Mountains , southern  Bulgaria . It is located in  Pazardzhik Province  near the towns of  Batak  and  Bratsigovo . The town is the third largest in the province after  Pazardzhik  and  Velingrad  and is the forty-fifth largest in Bulgaria. It is the administrative center of the municipality Peshtera. According to the 2021 census, Peshtera has a population of 15,175 inhabitants. At about 5 km to the south, along the road to Batak, is one of the most visited caves in Bulgaria —  Snezhanka . Near the town is located the  Peshtera Hydroelectric Power Station . The town is well known for producing the alcohol beverage  mastika  under the brand  Peshterska .