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Top 10 of Plovdiv, Bulgaria

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Djumaya (Friday) Mosque
Is an active Muslim temple, known also as Ulu (”main”) Djumaya Mosque. As legend goes, the last name is dated back to the time when the Ottomans conquered Plovdiv in 1371. The Muslim temple was built in the place of an Orthodox cathedral from the 13th c., dedicated to Saint Petka ( Paraskeva). Djumaya Mosque is the second biggest Muslim building within the boundaries of today’s Bulgaria, having build-up area of about 1500 sq.m.
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The Plovdiv Clock-tower
 The Plovdiv  Clock-tower is situated on the Sahatteppe. It is considered that this is one of the oldest clock-towers not only in Bulgaria but also in the whole Europe. Its construction is dated back to the 16th c. In the beginning of the 19th c this remarkable monument broke down. In 1812 the town public undertook the restoration of the tower.

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Ancient-revival ensemble around Hissarkapiya
The architecture of the Ancient Plovdiv represents a top manifestation of another  outstanding period of Bulgarian history the National Revival (18th-19th c.). There is homogeneous architectural ensemble, where the structures from the epoch of National Revival connect all historical layers, a rare combination of national traditional architecture and older historical layers, forming a homogeneous ensemble.

balabanov house
Balabanov  House
Hadji  Panayout Lampsha a rich merchant and moneylender, built house of the beginning of the 17th century. It is of imposing size built on an area of 546 sq.m. and with a capacity of 4723 cubic meters. Its last owner the merchant Louka Balabanov, whose name it bears to this day. Today a permanent exhibition of modern paining is displayed on the first floor of the house. On the second floor, once used to receive guests and even, today furnished in the typical town style of the National Revival Period.

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Olympic rowing canal
Length 2320m, width 135m, normal depth 2,5 m. It is a thoroughly artificial canal. The canal was inaugurated in 1989 for the World Youth Championship in canoe-kayak.One of the best rowing canals internationally: covers all possible distances.

ethnographic museum

The regional ethnographic museum
The house of Argir Kuyumdzhiouglu  is a typical representative of baroque style Plovdiv housing architecture from the epoch of the National Revival. Master Hadji George built it in 1847. It is of imposing dimensions: four stories, each having area of 570 sq.m., 2 big parlors, 12 rooms and more than 130 windows. In 1938 moved to the house the present Ethnographic Museum in Plovdiv. The collection preserved more than 40 000 movable monuments of culture.

Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
The Zlatyu Boyadzhiev Gallery
The house belonged to the eminent Plovdiv figure of the National Revival Period Dr Stoyan Chomakov, one of the most famous champions of church independence and spiritual union of the Bulgarians before the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman rule. In 1984 in it was exhibited the biggest collection of 71  pictures of the famous Bulgarian artist Zlatyu Boyadzhiev (1903-1976).

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Monument to Khan Krum
Khan Krum (803-814) is a great Bulgarian Statesman with a vision, who not only has united people from different ethical origin, but also founded the institutions of State, modern for its time and has established the first written laws in Bulgarian history in view of granting order, and security. The composition is a bronze and black granite; it was done out of three tons of metal.

The city art gallery – Tsanko Lavrenov
In the house of Krikor Maesrobovich are exhibited 60 canvasses of the artist, giving a complete and all-round idea of his work, which with its original individual style recreates the atmosphere, the spirit and the life-style of the Bulgarian National Revival Period and the present day. On the  first floor of the building is exhibited Mexican art a gift from the Mexican government on the occasion of the 1300th anniversary of the Bulgarian state.

museum of aviation
The museum of aviation
Near Krumovo, 15 km away from  the town, is situated the Plovdiv Airport. In close proximity is The Museum of Aviation and War-glory. The exposition was made in 1991 on an area of 43 decares and it follows the fighting path of Bulgarian aviation from the time of its creation to the present day with help of many documents and photos.


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