Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(ul Dr Chomakov; admission free; 24hr)
Some 203m high in the old town, a hill con-
tains the sparse ruins of Eumolpias, a Thracian settlement in 5000 BC. The fortress and
surrounding town enjoyed a strategic position, later bolstered by Macedonians, Romans,
Byzantines, Bulgarians and Turks, who named it Nebet Tepe (Prayer Hill).
While the remaining rubble is rather formless, the site does offer great views. Get there
from ul Dr Chomakov (the continuation of ul Sâborna). Partially restored remains of a
13th-century reservoir are also here.
MUSEUM
Ethnographical Museum
( 625 654; ul Dr Chomakov 2; adult/student 5/1lv; 9am-noon & 2-5.30pm Tue-Thu,
Sat & Sun, 2-5.30pm Fri)
This intriguing museum houses 40,000 exhibits, including folk
costumes and musical instruments, jewellery and traditional craftworks like weaving,
metalworking, winemaking and beekeeping. Traditional tools displayed range from grape-
crushers and wine-measures to apparatuses used for distilling attar of roses.
Restored 19th-century rooms upstairs have carved wooden ceilings. Plovdiv's most
renowned National Revival-period home, it was built in 1847 and owned by the eminent
Agir Koyoumdjioglou, later becoming a girls boarding school and a tobacco and flour
warehouse.
Historical Museum
( 623 378; ul Lavrenov 1; admission 2 lv; 9am-noon & 1-5.30pm Mon-Sat)
The
Historical Museum concentrates on the 1876 April Uprising and the massacre of Bulgari-
ans at Batak, which directly led to the Russian declaration of war on Turkey the next year.
Built in 1848 by Dimitâr Georgiadi, it's also called the Georgiadi Kâshta.
MUSEUM
Archaeological Museum
( 624 339; pl Saedinenie 1)
Thracian and Roman pottery and jewellery, and ecclesiast-
ical artefacts, icons and liturgical paraphernalia are on display here, along with a collec-
tion of 60,000 archaeological items.
MUSEUM
Museum of History
MUSEUM
