Sarafina’s House Museum (Veliko Tarnovo)

 cultural heritage / national heritage, interesting place, listed building / architectural heritage, 1860s construction, tourist attraction, ethnographic museum

Sarafina’s house is one of the town’s architectural masterpieces. It is situated at the picturesque street of Gurko. The house was built in 1861. It was a property of the wealthy merchant Dimo Sarafina. The building had to accommodate the house and the office of the trader. But he died before its finishing. And the house has never been used as an office. It was inherited by his wife Anastasia.
The house has a very interesting history. In the end of XIX c. a tunnel of a railway line was built in the rocks under the house. But its bases resisted as well during the digging as the earthquake in 1913. Sarafina’s house was a property of various people during the years. The house has been a museum since 1981. Now it houses an ethnographic exposition "Folk- art of Tarnovo’s Region".

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