Trifon Zarezan - the king of the vineyards
The election of the "king of the vineyards" is an ancient Bulgarian custom, revered in Northern Bulgaria to this day. The holiday "King of the Vineyards" is a form of the Greco-Thracian Dionysian celebrations. BECOME A VIRTUE ♥ The choice of "King of the Vineyards" is an ancient Bulgarian custom, revered in ...
The Clean Capital project - two boys inspire Bulgarians to clean their favorite urban spaces
I have always believed that a person is brought up best by getting good examples. I have always believed that a person is brought up best by getting good examples. An example of self-initiative and personal civic responsibility, as every person ...
Russians and Kalushari - ancient rituals for health and connection
Our lands have an ancient history. Here are preserved customs from ancient times, which today still attract the curiosity of the viewer. The most famous characters in our folk ritual games are mummers, firefighters and carolers. The participants in these games are secret male ...
Calendars and their mystical songs
Undoubtedly, there is something magical in Bulgarian folk songs, something unusual. They seem to reveal before our eyes a new and unknown world. A world full of adventures, fairytale events, mythical creatures. A world from which we can draw a huge dose ...
The myth of "toasts" in the village of Yugovo
In the central part of the divine Rhodopes, among the incredible sounds of the bagpipe, is located the small village of Yugovo. artist: Vesko Radulov / painting / oil paints / Yugovo village In the central part of the divine Rhodopes, among the incredible sounds of the bagpipe, is ...
Baba Residence - 2019 will send 20 youth from all over Bulgaria to live in 3 Vidin villages
The application is open until June 30! "Grandma's Residence" - the popular and nationally recognized initiative of the association "Factory of Ideas", for the fifth consecutive year will organize the stay of 20 socially engaged young people in adult households in villages around ...
The songs of Dryanovo village - from grandmother to granddaughter. The mission continues.
The project of the NISHAN Association immersed ten students who are engaged in folk singing in the authentic Rhodope folklore of the Dryanovo Grandmothers. In the summer of 2018, ten girls and boys from NUMTI "Dobrin Petkov" - Plovdiv and ODK Chepelare, spent 5 days in ...
For the freedom and the spirit of Bulgarian - teacher saves the whole village with only music and a big heart
Gloomy, lonely and sinking in ruin - this is what most Bulgarian villages look like today. Gone are the flowering gardens, the freshly mowed fields, and the smell of freedom. Only here and there from the broken windows, as if the spirits of those who have left not only that ...
Abandoned mineral springs in Bulgaria
Until thirty years ago, they called Bulgaria - "The country of mineral springs". It was said that there were about 5, and in many statistics this natural resource was pointed out as "a national treasure of great importance." photo: Zdravko ...
Abandoned mineral springs in Bulgaria
Until thirty years ago, they called Bulgaria - "The country of mineral springs". It was said that there were about 5, and in many statistics this natural resource was pointed out as "a national treasure of great importance." photo: Zdravko ...
The songs of Dryanovo village
Ten students from vocational high schools will study authentic Rhodope folklore in a village singing workshop, directly from the original source Between July 9 and 14, 2018, ten girls and boys engaged in folk singing will be immersed in local folklore and ...
Myths as a source for history. Mythical Bulgarian heroes
"Myth is a meaning of the world, an emotional immersion in its phenomena, but it is by no means a genre of verbal art. Myth - this is a fact of perception of the world, which can be given a different form - a song, action, fairy tale, story, naming. "And more ...
About the Woman's Beginnings, Mother Goddess, and Folk Sheets - Interview with Julia Boeva
Our meeting with Julia, a longtime researcher of Neolithic symbolism and folk embroidery; author of the books: "The Wisdom of the Great Mother", "The Goddess and the Horned Heads" and "The Goddess and the Two-Headed Horse", took place at the first national embroidery festival, organized in ...
The NISHAN Association revives the tradition of the Rhodope seat in its modern form
The young people, founders of the newest organization for preservation of our traditional heritage, invite everyone…
Baba Residence brings life back to the depopulated Bulgarian villages!
"And so you live the same life again, in the same house and in the same village, but you are already a changed person - your life is fuller, your days and evenings are more pleasant. The bread you eat becomes more pleasant for you. ”(Grandmother from the village of Dzhurkovo, part of“ Grandma’s Residence 2015 ”) We need ...
Dryanovo in the Bulgarian historical memory
Near Dryanovo are the Roman fortresses Diskoduratera, Strinava and Boruna, used during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (XII-XIV century), as part of the front fortification system of the capital Tarnovgrad. Local legends say that the surrounding fortresses ...
Bright memories of Gorna Oryahovitsa
Telling the earliest documented information about life in Gorna Oryahovitsa, we must go back to the years of the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520 - 1566). The Sultan had a great weakness for his beloved wife from the harem, the former slave of the Crimean Tatars, ...
Beer streams will emanate from Blue Stones
The story of the two old beer connoisseurs begins with the idea that has inspired them since 2014. Over the next two years, Yordan Chenkov and Penyo Georgiev researched, tried, built and together with the help of friends established the tastes of their beer. The recipe does not ...
Petition in support of the integrity of the ensemble for folk songs and dances - Sliven
The Folk Song and Dance Ensemble, as well as the Sliven Symphony Orchestra, risk being reduced by at least 50%. If the merged parties agree that the "recovery plan" of the mayor of the city will come into force, without further revision and shaping, this ...
The Baba Residence is located in the Northwest
Young people share the homes and daily lives of elderly people from the villages of Kostalevo, Pavolche and Chelopek for the month "Grandma's Residence" - the innovative initiative of "Factory for Ideas", which connects young people from the city with older people from the villages, looking for useful intersections ...
Folk crafts - symbols of industriousness and expressors of the aesthetic ideals of Bulgarians
Bulgarian traditional crafts and home activities create objects and works, the value of which turns out to be impressively resistant to the force of time. To make the various products, the Bulgarians used local raw materials, such as ...
Baba Residence 2016 seeks new crop of residents to help Bulgarian village
Between July 15 and August 3, those wishing to join the second edition of "Grandma's Residence" and spend 1 month helping a Bulgarian village can apply on the initiative's website. "Grandma's Residence" - the initiative of "Factory of Ideas", which connects ...
The famous Cherven is a cultural center of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom
If we ask ourselves how the urban type of living developed not only in the Bulgarian lands, but also in Europe, we will have to look at ancient Rome. What are the famous Roman cities in Europe? Rome, Naples, Mediolanum (Milan), Lutetia (Paris), Masalia (Marseille), ...
I am Bulgarian, I LOVE
I have lived in America for 20 years. I was one of those who grew up under communism, proudly reciting the poem "I am a Bulgarian" because I was lucky to grow up in a family of educated people with values. As a child, I thought I was doomed to never travel outside ...
Strikes from the past of the first liberated Bulgarian city
Rumen Daskalov notes that after the Liberation only four settlements in Bulgaria have a pronounced urban appearance - Plovdiv, which is part of Eastern Rumelia, and the Danube commercial ports of Ruse, Svishtov and Vidin. Svishtov is among the leading administrative centers of ...
The Challenge of the Idea Factory Social Change
An effective cure for the mass epidemic of "Golemoprazie" in the country is sought After in two successful editions, hundreds of "changemakers" invested time, effort and inspiration in solving public issues in 7 regions throughout Bulgaria, ...
Bozhentsi - a picturesque village with a Renaissance spirit
The cozy village of Bozhentsi is nestled in a small valley among the northern slopes of Stara Planina, near Gabrovo and Tryavna. According to the legend, it was created at the end of the 14th century, when the capital of the Second Bulgarian State - Veliko Tarnovo, was under the Ottoman ...
The village at the end of the Balkans
In the middle of Stara Planina, 10 km from Troyan, in a neighborhood with about twenty permanent residents, which can be reached by a single bus every three days, I spent unforgettable summers as a child. We had a villa and we were from "Sofia", along with other villagers looking for the tranquility of the mountain, ...
The living spirit of the old Bulgarian village - Residence Baba and Dryanovo Babi
The growing problem of the depopulation of Bulgarian villages and the loss of the thread with our roots is becoming more and more painful. Many of us live abroad and suffer our absence in this moment, so important for Bulgaria. So am I, thinking for years, what can ...