The first village museum of street art in the world opened doors a few days ago in Staro Zhelezare, a small village near Plovdiv. The exposition features original photographs taken during the StreetArt festival in Staro Zhelezare since 2013. The..
The picturesque village of Staro Zhelezare nestled in Bulgaria’s Sredna Gora Mountain hosts the traditional StreetArt Festival 2022, which will last until August 12. This year, the team of young artists from Poland and Bulgaria is preparing murals..
Staro Zhelezare has for a long time been popular as an art village, part of a large-scale art project. Once they park their cars in the village square, visitors enter a surreal world in which the impossible is there to be seen on the walls..
Until the end of August, the village near Plovdiv is once again hosting Staro Zhelezare Street Art Village Festival. The village itself has no more than 400 inhabitants. Every year the people behind this project – artists Katarzina and..
In the village of Staro Zhelezare near Plovdiv, life used to be no different to life in any other village in Bulgaria. People here would rise before daybreak to tend to the stock and take the cows and the sheep out to graze. Then the people who..
