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The architecture of the Bulgarian Revival is an Ottoman style architecture developed between 1770 and 1900. [ 1 ] Plovdiv's Old Town [ 2 ] is a living museum of the type of National Revival architecture that developed there (there were regional differences) in the early to mid-1800.
Saint George's Church (Bulgarian: църква „Свети Георги“, tsarkva „Sveti Georgi“) is a church in Gavril Genovo, a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Georgi Damyanovo municipality, Montana Province. It was built in 1873 by the architect Alekso Angelkov of the Slavine Architectural School in the village of Sotochino ...
The construction of the building, which spreads over 3,200 m², began in 1909 after the design of architect Naum Torbov was selected in 1907, and took two years to complete. Until the late 1940s the Sofia municipality let out about 170 shops and stalls in the Central Sofia Market Hall. The rents and the product quality were strictly regulated.
The old town in Plovdiv is an architectural and historical reserve located on three of Plovdiv's hills: Nebet Tepe, Dzhambaz Tepe and Taksim Tepe.. The complex has been formed as a result of the long sequence of habitation from prehistoric times to present day and combines the culture and architecture from Antiquity, Middle Ages and Bulgarian revival.
A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which change over time reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technology, or materials which make new styles possible.
The house's design combines influences from Jugendstil, Art Deco and romantic features from vernacular Bulgarian architecture. [2] 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 ...
The period is remarkable for its characteristic architecture which can still be observed in old Bulgarian towns such as Tryavna, Koprivshtitsa and Veliko Tarnovo, the rich literary heritage of authors like Ivan Vazov and Hristo Botev that inspired the Bulgarian struggle for independence and an autonomous church, and the April Uprising of 1876, a significant event of armed opposition to Ottoman ...
In terms of architecture, the Vrana Palace combines Byzantine influences, Bulgarian National Revival traditions, Art Nouveau and French classicism. [ 3 ] The Karelian Hall is a gift from Alexander III of Russia , and all of its furniture (the table, the chairs and the dressing table) are made of Karelian birch by master woodworkers specially ...