Crafts street
Cobbled.
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The Etar Open-Air Museum is a mountain village outdoors south of Gabrovo, with a cobbled street lined by two-storey white and blue timber houses with jutting balconies, a stream turning old mills, and craftsmen working in their workshops before visitors. The museum presents Bulgarian customs, culture and crafts from the Bulgarian National Revival. It covers 7 ha and holds 50 buildings, including water-powered installations and houses with craft workshops. Building began in 1963 under Lazar Donkov, starting with the reconstruction of the Karadzheyka watermill of around 1780. It opened in 1964 and features Revival-era houses and a clock tower. You walk the street between the workshops, watch potters, coppersmiths, weavers and sweet-makers at work, visit the watermills and houses, and can buy handmade crafts. It is about 8 km in a straight line south of central Gabrovo. It is liveliest in spring and summer, when all the workshops are open.
Cobbled.
Still turning.
And white.
South of Gabrovo, on the edge of Bulgarka Nature Park
Mainly spring and summer.
One and a half to three hours.