Koprivshtitsa · Bulgaria

Mausoleum-ossuary of Koprivshtitsa

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easy

10/10

best: morning, afternoon

peaceful, historic, charming

A local would say...

The revolution that freed Bulgaria from the Ottomans started right here on these cobblestones in 1876.

A perfectly preserved 19th-century Bulgarian revival town of 400 colourful mansion-houses where the April 1876 uprising against Ottoman rule began, with a babbling creek winding through its centre and green hills and walking trails surrounding it. The streets move at a slower pace than Bulgarian cities and the ornate timber houses with their overhanging upper floors and fenced gardens feel genuinely inhabited rather than museumified. A rare example of an entire historic townscape intact.