In 2015, young people\norganize the establishing of a masquerade group in Tsarkva and start\ncelebrating Surva<\/em>, as, according to\nthem, the old tradition in Pernik region requires. They start collecting\nmaterials for the masks and look for a place where to store them. They manage\nto find a premises, which was once used by the former Agrarian-Industrial\nComplex. With the assistance of the Tsarkva town council, a permission is\nreceived from the Ministry of Agriculture to use the premises for the needs of\nthe survakari<\/em> group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, on the feast of\nSurva \u2013 14 January (St Basil\u2019s Day or New Year according to the old calendar)\nthey start performing masquerade games in the quarter. The two pensioner clubs\nprepare the traditional meal \u2013 meat with cabbage. People from the quarter bring\nwine and brandy (rakia). There is abundant mulled wine, and a Surva<\/em> fire is lit in the meadow behind\nthe town hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Already for two years\nin succession on the evening of 13 January in the quarter, the survakari<\/em> meet the group from the neighboring\nvillage of Kralev Dol. The two groups meet at dusk on the Kralevski road and\ndirect towards the center of Tsarkva. There they perform survakari<\/em> games around the fire, and the hosts prepare feast meals\nwith meat and cabbage and banitsa (cheese pie). The confectionary workshop in\nthe quarter provides sweet delicacies for the feast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The masquerade group\nof Tsarkva quarter takes part in the International Festival \u201cSurva\u201d in Pernik,\nas well as in the International Festival \u201cKukerlandia\u201d in the town of Yambol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recorded in 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 \u2018church\u2019) is restored. The quarter is on the border between Pernik and the international road E79. No memory is preserved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[62,66,88],"views":6416,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/survakari.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u0426\u044a\u0440\u043a\u0432\u0430-8-1024x768.jpg\")
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