966 - Martin Wirth, Pamporovo, "Hotel Prespa" with walkers, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria, ski resort, 1988

Martin Wirth, Pamporovo, "Hotel Prespa" with walkers, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria, ski resort, 1988 (1939 – 2017 Ilsenburg), ballpoint pen on card, signed and dated (19)88 lower right, inscribed "Pamporovo / Bulg. Hotel Prespa" lower left, multi-storey hotel building with gabled roofs and stepped balconies above a rocky slope with pines and spruces, in front a winding road with walkers, in the foreground a couple beside a tall mast, to the right street lamps with globe lights, good condition commensurate with age, edges slightly stained, image 36x47 cm (HxW), overall 36x48 cm (HxW) Pamporovo is a winter sports resort in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains in Smolyan Province; its ski area extends from 1,420 m up to 1,928 m and is surrounded by spruce forests. Above the resort, on the summit of Snezhanka, stands a 156 m reinforced concrete television tower built between 1973 and 1978. The Hotel Prespa, a four-storey building, lies in the centre of the resort. Bulgaria was among the destinations that citizens of the GDR could book through the Reisebüro der DDR and Balkantourist. In his Harz homeland Martin Wirth later designed landscape projects, his last major undertaking being a landscape park between Darlingerode and Drübeck.