One of the biggest folklore festivals near Rozhen peak (The Rhodopes) again gathers fans of folklore from Bulgaria and abroad. Traditionally Rhozen is a festival of folklore and stockbreeding, as stockbreeding is the main livelihood in the region of the Rhodopes Range. The festival programme includes national folklore competition for folk singers, instrumentalists, folk dances, customs and verbal folklore. Traditions come alive in dance competitions, evening concerts and fire-dancing shows where men and women dance over live coals. Stockbreeders launch exhibitions of various breeds of sheep, goats, dogs and other domestic animals. They also present dairy and meat foods and traditional meals.
"In a vast region in northern Bulgaria, St. Todor is somehow perceived as a demonic character... He visited gatherings of unmarried girls, which were prohibited during that period; he acquired the appearance of a young bachelor, but distinguishable by..
Thousands of cowbells of different sizes and shapes filled the streets of Yambol with chiming, jingling and ringing at the 25th International Masquerade Festival "Kukerlandia". Згдшд More than two thousand mummers - called kukeri, sourvakari,..
Martenitsas are one of the symbols of Bulgaria – regarded as the harbinger of spring and the end of darkness. Every year, on 1 March, Bulgarians, wherever they may be in the world, give friends and family the red-and-white tassels, as a token of..
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