Tag - Survakari

Zemen Town

The town of Zemen is situated in Pernik District and is the administrative center of Zemen Municipality. It is located on the two banks of Struma River in a small valley, which leads to the Zemen...

Yardzhilovtsi Village

The village of Yardzhilovtsi is situated 10 km west from the city of Pernik, on the way to the Breznik region. The local residents of the village like to say, “There may be nothing else here, but...

Cherna gora Village

The village of Cherna Gora is situated in the territory of the town Batanovtsi, only a few kilometers away from Pernik. There, people have been celebrating Surva for as far back as people can...

Chepino Village

Chepino is located 8 km away from the local municipal center Kovachevtsi. Nowadays there are only 40-50 permanent inhabitants in the village but on Surova the population increases ten times. So...

Stefanovo Village

Stefanovo village is located only 10 km away from Radomir. It has around 350 inhabitants and a great part of them mask and play on Surova, as their predecessors have done. The custom is from “time...

Sopitsa Village

In the area of Graovo, 11 km away from Breznik is situated the village of Sopitsa in a small hollow between the hills Glog, Darven Krast, Stoykov Rid and Krusha. The mineral water in the Solenik...

Slakovtsi Village

About 10 km to the south of Breznik is the old settlement of Slakovtsi, which is mentioned in written documents from 1576. The archaeological finds from the region evidence that the area was...

Sirishtnik Village

The village of Sirishtnik is in Kovachevtsi municipality and is situated 25 km to the west of Pernik. It is not far from Pchelina dam. In our days, the permanent inhabitants of the village are about...

Selishten Dol Village

The village of Selishten Dol is situated in the central part of Graovo, at the foot of Cherna Gora Mountain and 14 km away from Pernik. A document, preserved in the archive of the Institute of...

Svetlya Village

In the Central Western part of Bulgaria, 30 km away from Pernik is Svetlya village, which is part of Kovachevtsi municipality.  Its inhabitants like to tell about the traditional feast Surova...

Sadovik Village

The village of Sadovik is situated in a mountain region, on the southeastern slope of the low mountain Izvorska Mogila. Administratively it belongs to Breznik municipality and is 7 km away from the...