Samovodska Charshia (Veliko Tarnovo)

 museum, invisible, historic town square, ethnography, tourist attraction, street market

The street, which now is called "Georgi Rakovski" was in the nineteenth century one of the main artisanal and commercial streets of Veliko Tarnovo, called "Samovodska Charshia". Blacksmiths, tinkers, potters, dealers, confectioners, butchers exercised here their craft and exhibited their goods. In the market days, this was the most animated place in town. Women from the nearby village of Samovodene used to come in market days, put down small rugs before them, pile their vegetables on them and begin to sell them. This is where its name came from, the Samovodene Market.
In the three of the bakery ovens were once manufactured the famous "simid" (white bread with milk), round flamed bread and donuts. Visitors were able to appreciate the specific taste of traditional food products, like: "boza", a consistent drink based on millet, "kadaif", a Turkish pastry with syrup and nuts, "halva", a kind of nougat, blown corn and eastern confiserie .
Nowadays, majority of the authentic houses and shops are restored. Here artisans work under the visitors' look, who observe artisanal techniques and how to use the original tools.
Many antiques and souvenir shops present a variety of unique art objects or reproductions of pottery, wood carvings, weapons, antique jewels.

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