Bansko's attraction list is predictably small and centered within its old quarter, where cobbled lanes spread out from ploshtad Vuzrazhdane, the square marked by the statue of Father Paisii, author of the Slav-Bulgarian History, one of the books that helped launch the National Revival. On the mountain side of the square is the Church of Sveta Troitsa.

Behind the church is the Neofit Rilski House Museum, birthplace of one of Bulgaria's great scholars and another key player in the National Revival. Other than this there is the nearby Rilski Convent, the Velyanova Kushta Museum, 5 Velyan Ognev, home to the man who carved the iconostasis in the Church of Sveta Troitsa, and today furnished with typical 19th-century items that provide insight into the relatively humble lifestyle of Bansko's hoi polloi. A little farther north from the old quarter is ploshtad Nikola Vapstarov, where the annual Bansko International Jazz Festival is held in August. You can visit the Nikola Vapstarov House, where the revolutionary poet was born.