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Planinitsa Планиница
Village
Planinitsa Location of Planinitsa
Coordinates: 42°35′57″N 22°52′39″E / 42.59917°N 22.87750°E / 42.59917; 22.87750
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Pernik
Municipality (Obshtina)	Pernik
First mentioned	1448
Government
• Mayor	Andrej Stoichev
Area
• Land	3.719 km2 (1.436 sq mi)
Elevation	894 m (2,933 ft)
Population  (2024)
• Total	17
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	2340
License plate	PK

Planinitsa (Bulgarian: Планиница, also transliterated Planinica) is a village in western Bulgaria. Its located in Oblast Pernik, Obshtina Pernik.

Planinitsa is in a mountainous region, 45 km southwest of Sofia and 12 km west of Pernik.

The climate is humid continental with cool summer and average temperatures of 22 °C and soft and snowy winter with average temperatures of 1 °C.

Every first Sunday of July the village celebrates the traditional day of the village.

The name derives from the Bulgarian word Planina, which means mountain + the Slavic suffix -itsa.

The village was recorded in historical records in 1448 as Planintsi.

Late antique and medieval fortress in Gradishte, 1.16 km west of the village of Planinitsa, on the eastern slope of Cherna Gora. The fortress was built in late antiquity on an area of about 3 acres. In the past, part of the fortress walls and the separate rooms to them were preserved. It also existed in the early Middle Ages.^[1]

The village shares a mayor with the neighbouring village of Leskovets, due to the small size of the village.

• Vergil Vaklinov (1931 – 1953), Border Guard
• Alexander Alexandrov (1991 – ), GERB
• Alexander Planinski (1879 - 1969), Writer