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Types of Landscapes in the Rila Monastery Nature Park
Rila Monastery Nature Park
Management Plan (Draft) – Appendices
2004 - 2013
Appendix № 25
The assessment of landscapes in the RMNP was based on a 2002 Rapid Landscape
Evaluation (RLE) and the landscapes were assessed by a team of landscape architects
and forestry engineers on the site and from photographs. The landscapes were
evaluated using the existing facts (presence or lack of certain elements such as relief,
vegetation, infrastructure, water bodies and flows, rocks etc.), and based on the
feelings they induce in the observer. Thus, the overall assessment of the landscape
reflects the actual environment and, at the same time, the psychological effect on its
observer. Complex indicators were used such as definiteness (dominance),
spaciousness (spatial dynamics), colors, color combinations, perspective, shades and
general landscape characteristics. The landscape types in the Park are presented in the
following table:
Landscape types by
macrorelief and vegetation Altitude
Natural landscapes
without
other
dominant
features
with
culture
sites
Natural landscapes with
dominant water bodies
natural
artificial/
damaged
form No form No form No form No
1. Mid-mountain
1,000 –
landscapes
1,600
1.1. broad-leaved forests 2, 3 1
1.2. mixed coniferous and
broad-leaved forests
4
7
2. High-mountain
1,600 –
landscapes
2,200
2.1. mixed coniferous and
broad-leaved forests
5, 6, 24 30 (damaged)
2.2. coniferous forests 13, 27
9, 10, 11, 12,
26
25 (damaged)
2.3. rare low-stemmed
forests and brush
8, 29
31 (damaged)
2.4. meadows and brush 28
3. Sub-Alpine landscapes
2,200-
2,500
3.1. meadows and dwarf pine
higher
14
15, 16, 17,
19, 20
32 (damaged)
4.Alpine landscape
than
2,500
4.1. rocks, screes and stone
rivers
18, 21, 23, 26