The central hall
A high carved ceiling at the heart of the floor.
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The old town is small and walks in two hours, but each house costs a separate ticket, so choose two or three. **Balabanov House** is the best known and the most completely furnished. **Kuyumdzhioglu House** holds the ethnographic museum and has the finest front, with its undulating roofline. **Nedkovich House** is the quietest and has the best garden. **Hindliyan House** is the richest in ornament, with its own indoor bath. Ask about a combined ticket at the first house you enter โ one is sometimes sold and saves a good deal.
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The Nedkovich House is among the best preserved of Plovdiv's old houses, built in 1863 for the merchant Stepan Nedkovich, and a complete example of what is called the **symmetrical Plovdiv house**. The style is worth explaining because you will see it across the quarter: a narrow stone ground floor, upper floors that widen and overhang the street on timber brackets, and a front painted in strong colour โ blue, red or yellow โ with painted ornament imitating marble. The reason is practical: Ottoman tax was assessed on ground area rather than on the building, so what stood above it was built wider. The interior is preserved with its furnishings: a central reception hall rising higher than the rooms around it, carved timber ceilings, walls painted with views of European cities their owners had never seen, and imported Viennese furniture. **The rear garden is part of the visit**, with a fountain and a terrace.
A high carved ceiling at the heart of the floor.
Views of European cities the owners never saw.
Ulitsa Tsanko Lavrenov 3, Old Town, Plovdiv