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Shiroka Laka (Bulgarian: Широка лъка [ʃiˈrɔkɐ ˈɫɤkɐ]) is a village in the very south of Bulgaria, located in Smolyan municipality, Smolyan Province.It is a proclaimed architectural and folklore reserve and lies in the central Rhodope Mountains, 23 km (14 mi) northwest of Smolyan, 16 km (10 mi) west of Pamporovo and 22 km (14 mi) southeast of Devin.
Sozopol (Bulgarian: Созопол [soˈzɔpoɫ]; Greek: Σωζόπολις, romanized: Sozopolis) is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. One of the major seaside resorts in the country, it is known for the Apollonia art and film festival (which takes place in early September) that is ...
It was carved in a 100 m (330 ft) tall cliff, at a height of 23 m (75 ft), near the village of Madara. It dates to the beginning of the 8th century, when Madara was a sacred site of the First Bulgarian Empire. Near the relief, there are inscriptions in Medieval Greek, describing the events of the early Bulgarian state and its khans. [6] [7]
One such theory connects them to the masquerades of the ancient Roman winter festival of Bacchanalia, and earlier the Greek Dionysia. [ citation needed ] During the drunken, orgiastic parts of the festivals, people wearing masks, hidden under costumes in bestial shapes yet still appearing humanoid, may have made an exceptional impression on the ...
The interior of the house includes five bedrooms, a cellar, a drawing room with a red-marble fireplace and a music stage. [3] The house's nickname comes from the strawberry bushes that were once planted in its front yard. [2] After the 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état, the Strawberry House was nationalized. It was used as an embassy of Romania and a ...
The Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex (Bulgarian: Етнографски музей на открито „Етър“, usually referred to as Етъра, Etara) is an open-air museum near Gabrovo in northern Bulgaria. [1] [2] It is on the northern edge of the Bulgarka Nature Park, between the park and the city of Gabrovo.
The Lyutov House, a mid-19th century house in Koprivshtitsa. Koprivshtitsa (Bulgarian: Копривщица, pronounced [koˈprifʃtit͡sɐ]], from the Bulgarian word коприва, kopriva, meaning "nettle") is a historic town in the Koprivshtitsa Municipality in Sofia Province, central Bulgaria, lying on the Topolnitsa River among the Sredna Gora mountains.
There are many uninhabited houses in Zheravna. Much of the uninhabited houses were bought and restored, in order to attract tourists and they are categorized as guest houses. Each year, Zeravna is visited by about 20,000 tourists. Most of the houses in Zheravna were built during the Bulgarian Revival, but their inner interior has been since ...