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The Ethnographic and Revival Complex “St. Sofronii Vrachanski”

The complex, located in Vratsa city, takes its name from the senior bishop at the time of Ottoman rule: ‘Sofronii Episkop Vrachanski’. It includes three Renaissance houses: ‘Dimitraki Hadjitoscev’, ‘Grigoriy Naydenov’, ‘Ivan Zambin’; besides there are also the ‘Vaznesenie School’ and ‘Sv. Vaznesenie Church’. This ethnographic complex shows the old traditional culture, crafts, and lifestyle of the population of the XIX-XX century.

Dimitraki Hadjitoscev This house, built in 1812,

was dedicated to Hadjii’s family for its important political and economic activities in the north-west of Bulgaria. In fact, here, personal belongings, various icons, a triptych and traditional copper vessels are shown. Moreover there is also the first printed modern Bulgarian book, published by Sofronii Vrachanski.

Grigoriy Naydenov This is Grigoriy Naydenov’s

house of birth. He was an heroic participant in Russian-Turkish war for Bulgarian liberation.

Here we can see the unique exposition “The World of the Child at the End Of The 19th And Beginning Of The 20th c. ”, which presents the children lifestyle both in a rural and urban setting; for example their traditional games and pastimes.

Ivan Zambin Ivan Zambin belonged to a

noble family and he was considered one of the first Bulgarian intellectual and the most cultured person of the time.

In this house, there is an exhibition of the main means of living and traditional artistic crafts, like sericulture and silk industry.

There is a wine cellar under the house where a wine-production is exposed.

Vaznesenie School The school exposition is

the most important of the complex.

The building is divided in two floors; in the first one there is an exhibit of ethnographic material like traditional clothes, typical foods and domestic utensils. Instead the second one is dedicated to the music; in fact documents, instruments and personal objects of a known musician are preserved.

Traditional Vehicles In front of the

school there is an exhibition of traditional vehicles, where we can see a large manufacturing of carts and iron tools.

Sv. Vaznesenie’ church The church, built in

1848, is the most ancient of the city. Here in 1989 a permanent exhibition is opened on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of St. Sofronii Vrachanski. It presents unique examples of icon-painting and wood carving.

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