Visit Plovidv & Learn a Craft Tour

The day begins with a meeting with your guide. With his help you will have the opportunity to travel back in time and feel the old-centuries history of the city.

During this walking tour you will go through a variety of eras, cultures, architectures. You will visit the Ethnographic Museum, where one can see, touch and feel tradition. And in order to feel the way people lived before technology, we will visit the street of crafts where we will see a demonstration of a 2 craft houses chosen by you.

Higlights:

Walking Tour Plovdiv : Ancient Plovdiv Architectural Reserve is a well-preserved complex where on a relatively small area visitors can take walks through different historical ages, see ancient buildings adapted to the modern way of life and feel the spirit of the town from the Bulgarian Revival Period.

Street of Crafts

 : The Street of Crafts is a crafts market where one can explore typical for the Revival period workshops, have a tea or coffee, purchase herbs from a traditional drug-store, observe works of skillful craftsmen created in front of their eyes.

There can be observed workshops in: ceramics, pottery, bakery, felting, glass engraving and painting, weaving and blacksmithery.

Every visitor is able to see, or make by themselves, and purchase a souvenir from Plovdiv.

Ethnographic museum :The rich collection represents the traditional culture of Thrace, the Rhodopes and the Sredna Gora mountains during the period of National Revival.

Тhe choice to the visit for craft houses can be made between 1 workshop from each category:

Category 1:
- Flexible
- Bakery
- Doll making
- Pottery Workshop
- Drawing on glass

Category 2:
- Art fabrics
- Flexible
- Drawing on ceramic products
- Smithy workshop
- Traditional musical instruments
- Jewelry from crepe