Pravets or Pravetz (, also transliterated as Pravec, ) is a town in Pravets Municipality of Sofia Province in central western Bulgaria, located approximately from the capital Sofia. Pravets is home town of Pravetz computers.

Pravets has a population of 4,512 people. Mountains surround it, which allows for a mild climate with rare winds. In the outskirts there is an artificial lake used for fishing and recreation. The town is the birthplace of Bulgaria's longtime communist president Todor Zhivkov. The first microprocessor factory in Bulgaria was established in Pravets. The computers produced there, which were among the first in Bulgaria, were named Pravetz after the town.

Today, the town is most famous for its computers and technology systems high school and the Hyatt Pravets golf resort complex. There is also a language high school by the name of Aleko Konstantinov. It prepares many students who continue their undergraduate education in Bulgaria, England, the US, Germany, and France. The Professional Computing and Technology Systems high school is one of two technical schools in Bulgaria, which prepares students for the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria, and allows for direct admission to the university to its top students.

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File:Pravec tabela.jpg|The coat of arms of Pravets on a billboard

File:Todor-Zhivkov-Memorial-in-Pravets.jpg|Todor Zhivkov memorial in Pravets

File:Pravets summer 2004.JPG|Pravets in summer

File:Prawez im Winter.jpg|Pravets in winter

File:Springpravets.JPG|Pravets in spring

File:Pravets Palace Hotel.jpg|The Palace Hotel

File:Pravetz-square-2.JPG|Square

File:Pravetz-square.jpg|Square

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  • Professional High School of Computing and Technology Systems (UKTZ, УКТЦ)
  • Country&Golf in the area
  • Image Gallery of Pravets
  • Large Image Gallery of Pravets and the Region