Bukhalov Inn is part of the Ethnographic Complex "Old Karlovo" - an architectural reserve that unites emblematic buildings for the city of Karlovo - cultural monuments of inestimable historical and aesthetic value.
Dear friends of Photo Moments, get ready because love is about to hit you! Love for Bulgarian traditions and crafts, love for embroidery and lace, love for woven rugs and costumes, love for embroidery, weaving and pottery, and most of all – love for work and for Bulgaria! And while you're enjoying all that love, crafted and served with great care, why not try the aromatic sand-brewed coffee or the pink rose liqueur? Try the wonderful and colorful Turkish delight or eat the gyulovitsa. Dip your fingers in rose jam, fig jam or white jam or pour yourself some homemade lemonade. Come with me to a world that has captured and preserved that inimitable urban revival atmosphere that is still alive here and that will touch you deeply, captivate you and hold you for a long time.
This two-story house, built in 1850 by Kirko Bukhalov (Buhala) - an innkeeper and innkeeper whose name it still bears today, impresses with its row of wooden windows overlooking the cobblestone street.
The building of the inn is a donation to Karlovo from one of the founders of the women's movement in our country - the Karlovo revival activist Mrs. Penka Popova, who bequeathed the Bukhalovian inn for the cultural and educational needs of the sub-Balkan town.
Its blue-white, slender-elegant decoration gives the inn an elegant and unforgettable look.
Located directly opposite the high bell tower of the oldest Karlovian Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bukhalovi Khan, together with the Christian temple, which has been declared an immovable cultural asset (cultural monument) with the category of national importance, the old stone fountain and the gymnasium, form a cute little and very beautiful square, for which historians and architects agree - this is the spiritual center of Karlovo.
One of the most beautiful photo moments of the Bukhalovi Khan was captured precisely from the emblematic old stone fountain, built by an unknown master in the distant year 1775.
The inn gate is wide open! He greets me from afar! And I don't hesitate at all - with a smile on my face and a song in my heart, I pass through the huge oak gate of Bukhalov Khan and love immediately hits me!
Well, you can't stand still in the midst of all this beauty, that's for sure!
Bukhalov Khan is definitely the most emblematic building of the entire "Old Karlovo" ethnographic complex and probably one of the most beautiful Renaissance houses I have ever visited!
Love is everywhere - you can feel it on the large cobblestones in the yard, it smiles from the green garden on the left, it shines from the blooming flowers planted in hand-painted clay pots, caressing with the breeze playing on the vast porches, the smell of the huge Bulgarian embroidery meets me! Incredible!
How many flowers! How much beauty! How much love!
Do you feel with what deep and true love the curators of this charming place have arranged, arranged and decorated everything here?
Do you feel how all this love is repeatedly amplified and returned to us? The Balkans receive it with its proud slopes, reflect it and send it back here. Do you feel it?
I told you, you can't stand idly by here! Memories are made here! And what kind!
Back in the day, merchants traveling through the city stopped to eat and spend the night here.
Today, the inn's numerous premises offer its visitors an exceptional and so special touch to the many crafts and cultural traditions that have come to life here.
From 1937 to the middle of the 1950s, Bukhalovi Khan worked as a library and community center. Today, a part of it performs the same functions.
Taking a book in your hand, from the bookshelves rich in knowledge, you can sit on the long benches, leaning on a soft cushion, embroidered by hand, and when you have finished reading, look through the many windows in the direction of the church and feel the living spirit of the revival Karlovo .
Or to relax in the magical rocking chairs, sinking into pure bliss.
The next room is filled with Bulgarian music and the voices of Mihail Belchev, Bogdana Karadocheva, Stefan Dimitrov and Yordanka Hristova pleasantly whisper rhymes about ageless love and long-gone youth.
Passing from room to room, I am fully convinced that love has completely filled this charming place!
Everything is arranged with such style, attention to detail and with so much love that you literally cannot remain indifferent!
So...room by room, craft by craft...
Cutlery, wood carving, embroidery, Kalofer lace, weaving, artistic knitting... the wonders of the hands here seem to have no end.
The place is connected with the activities of the "Students' Society", established on March 1, 1870 and developing a wide range of social and cultural activities in the city. Many of its actors were peers and friends of Vasil Levski, who later became members of the Karlovy Vary Revolutionary Committee.
In the Bukhalovian inn, the Apostle founded the city's first abstinence society.
Come to make yourself proud!
The Ethnographic Complex "Old Karlovo" was opened in 2014.
It includes five houses – cultural monuments of remarkable cultural value. These are:
Each of the houses generates its own unique message, which directs the guest in different directions, provokes desires and memories in him, makes him dream.
The integrity of the architectural ensemble is unique and inimitable, and every visitor could feel that great Revival spirit that still roams the narrow cobblestone streets of "Old Karlovo".
The Ethnographic Complex "Old Karlovo" is site number 44b of the 100 national tourist sites.
How to get to the town of Karlovo?
Karlovo is a town located at the southern foot of the Stara Planina Mountains – in Plovdiv District.
It is located in South-Central Bulgaria near the Sub-Balkan Road*.
*The Republican Road I-6, also known as the Sub-Balkan Road, is a first-class road of the Republican Road Network of Bulgaria with a west-east direction, passing through the territory of nine districts: Kyustendil, Pernik, Sofia District, Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Yambol and Burgas.
Its total length is 508.5 km, making it the longest republican road in Bulgaria.
The nearest town to Karlovo is the town of Sopot – located 5 kilometers (about 5 minutes by car) to the west.
Karlovo is located:
139 kilometers (about 2 hours and 11 minutes by car) from the capital
60 kilometers (about 1 hour by car) from the city of Plovdiv
356 kilometers (about 4 hours and 30 minutes by car) from the city of Varna
244 kilometers (about 2 hours and 44 minutes by car) from the city of Burgas
17 kilometers (about 17 minutes by car) from the city of Kalofer
Karlovo is the third largest city in Plovdiv District after the regional capital and Asenovgrad.
Karlovo is the administrative center of Karlovo Municipality.
How to get to Buhalov Han in the town of Karlovo?
Buhalov Han in the town of Karlovo is located at 49 Vasil Levski Street, right opposite the oldest Karlovo church, "Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary".
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