There are eight schools (five of them high schools), three reference libraries (chitalishtes), about 100 hotels (some of which five-star), a stadium and a city orchestra.

The Villa Raîna is a Néo-Renaissance villa in the city's area of Ldžene (Bulgarian: Лъдженe) and was designed in 1928 by a renowned pre-WWII Serbian architect Milutin Borisavljević (1889-1970).
Initially, "Raina" was conceived as the summer house of the Belgrade based industrialist, Stojadin "Stole" Stevović (1888-1945), for the needs of the families Stevović and Simić.
The site selected was a hilltop just outside the city of Velingrad, locally called the "Acropolis".
The design mainly reflected the values of French Renaissance architecture but with discreet decorative features in the then fashionable Art Deco style.
 The house was nationalized in 1946, and transformed into a sanatorium for the treatment of infectious diseases.
In 1992 the Villa Raina was restituted to Stevović's heirs  (families Krsmanović-Simić  and Gillès de Pélichy).
The summer house is today  protected by law as a cultural and historical monument of regional importance.
There are eight schools (five of them high schools), three reference libraries (chitalishtes), about 100 hotels (some of which five-star), a stadium and a city orchestra.
The Villa Raîna is a Néo-Renaissance villa in the city's area of Ldžene (Bulgarian: Лъдженe) and was designed in 1928 by a renowned pre-WWII Serbian architect Milutin Borisavljević (1889-1970). Initially, "Raina" was conceived as the summer house of the Belgrade based industrialist, Stojadin "Stole" Stevović (1888-1945), for the needs of the families Stevović and Simić. The site selected was a hilltop just outside the city of Velingrad, locally called the "Acropolis". The design mainly reflected the values of French Renaissance architecture but with discreet decorative features in the then fashionable Art Deco style.  The house was nationalized in 1946, and transformed into a sanatorium for the treatment of infectious diseases. In 1992 the Villa Raina was restituted to Stevović's heirs  (families Krsmanović-Simić  and Gillès de Pélichy). The summer house is today  protected by law as a cultural and historical monument of regional importance.
Velingrad