Tag - Surva

Kovachevtsi Village

The village of Kovachevtsi is only 25 km from the district town Pernik. Its history and culture provoke one’s interest and its nature attracts hundreds of tourists. The National Children’s Ecological...

Tsarkva quarter

Tsarkva is a southeastern quarter of Pernik. It is a former independent village, which in 1962 is renamed to Daskalovo, and in 1973 becomes part of the town. After 1989, its old name Tsarkva (meaning...

Kalishte Village

Kalishta village belongs to the Kavochevtsi municipality and is 9 km from its center. It is situated on the southern-most heights of Chetna gora and on the northern foothills of Konyavska Mountain...

Zidartsi Village

Zidartsi village is located 10 km northwest from the town of Pernik and 6 km north from the town of Batanovtsi. Georgi Radoslavov shares his memories about the custom in the village. When he was a...

Elovdol Village

Elov dol village is located in the outskirts of the Ruysko-Verilska Mountain. It is part of the Zemen municipality. One of its inhabitants, born in the distant 1882, has left his memories about the...

Drugan Village

Drugan is in the Radomir Hollow on the main road from Radomir to Dupnitsa. A family of old people, who already cannot go with the survashkari, but still gladly and with love welcome them every year...

Dragichevo Village

The village of Dragichevo is situated in the southwestern slope of Luylin Mountain and is a starting point for the Rudartsi resort and for the Selimitsa Ridge of Vitosha Mountain. Administratively it...

Dolna Sekirna Village

Dolna Sekirna is located in the outskirts of the Erulska Mountain, in the southwestern part of Breznik municipality, on the border with Tran municipality. In the archive of the Regional Historical...

Divotino Village

Divotino is situated 4 km north from the town of Pernik. Nowadays the most beloved holydays in the village are the local fair on 24 May and Surova. In the archive of the Regional Historical Museum...

Divlya Village

Divlya is 14 km northwest from the town of Zemen. In it Vladimir Dimitrov – the Master, a great Bulgarian painter, re-created the beauty of Divlya’s maidens on his canvases. In Gencho Keremidchiev’s...

Gorna Vrabcha Village

The village of Gorna Vrabcha is in Zemen Municipality. It is situated in a mountain region and today its permanent inhabitants are about 50. In the community’s local memory are preserved some...

Golemo Buchino Village

The village of Golemo Buchino is situated in Pernik Municipality. It is in the region of Lyulin Mountain and not far from the capital Sofia. One of the survakari in the village – Vasil Slavchev –...