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Regional tourist association Stara Planina 9, Opalchenska Street 5300 Gabrovo, Bulgaria tel: +359 66/ 807 137 fax: +359 66/ 809 161 e-mails: |
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SECRETES OF CREATION
Since ancient times, the skillful hands of local master craftsmen have made wood and metal come alive in the form of marvelous samples. They convey the rich spirituality of Balkan people and their fine feeling for beauty.
In numerous museums and small workshops, past flows into the present unnoticed.
Tryavna Icon-painting School Museum exhibits the beautiful masterpieces of local icon-painters. Here are the works of old painters, whose heirs today carve wood into wonderful flowers, vines, suns and flying birds.
The Ethnographic Open Air Museum of Etura is a fairy-tale of the past time. The main street (Charshia) with the small shops and workshops, the stone-roof houses and the authenticity of old urban mode of life take the visitor back to the 19th century. All installations and tools here are driven by water, allowing skillful craftspeople to produce, in front of the very eyes of the traveler, wooden and copper pots, knives of peculiar shapes, jewelry and ceramics.
Colourful rugs reflecting the palette of neighbouring meadows can be often seen hanging on the spacious wooden terraces.
In the village of Bojentsi, do stop by the wax workshop, as well as at the Association of Craftspeople in Teteven. Weavers, knitters and wood-carvers intertwine the colours of the mountain into beautiful rugs, carpets and wooden laces.
The Balkan has given its specific colours to Troyan pottery too – blue as the sky and warm brown as the earth.
The museum in Troyan and the National Fair of Artistic Crafts in the village of Oreshak show the best of Troyan School of Ceramics.
Present-day master craftsmen do not hide the secrets of their art and workshops are all over hospitable and open to the curious ones.
The one and only of its kind Rose Museum in Kazanlak follows the traditional and modern rose production, from its very beginning, till nowadays.
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