The students from “Vasil Levski” Sunday school in Athens and Navplio visited the city of Plovdiv and the capital of Bulgaria in connection to the project “Travelling in enlivened Rennaisance” in cooperation with “Vasil Levski” Secondary School in the town of Karlovo. The 4-days’ excursion programm was quite heavy but left the participants with sweet memories: from visiting museums and churches, and relishing the Bulgarian cuisine, as well as nature sights taking one’s breath away.
The excursion started on 15th July, Saturday at 19 o’clock when the bus to Sofia started off from the center of Athens. Twelve hours later the students arrived in the Bulgarian capital and left straight away to Karlovo by train. After arriving the students strolled on the picturesque cobbled streets of the town’s Old center on their way to the hotel. They saw the Apostle’s Monument, the beautiful facades and wooden gates of the Renaissance- style houses: the «Owl’s Inn», one of the most outstanding buildings in the town, where the art of the craftsmen of 19th century are kept and the house of Botev. Later, the students left for the town of Sopot in order to visit the museum-house of Ivan Vazov, the patriarch of the Bulgarian literature; Rada’s school, which impressed the students with the almost authentic classrooms; The mill of old Stoyan from the famous Ivan Vazov’s novel «Under the yoke»; «St. Spas» Nunnery of Sopot, at which Vasil Levski became monk and his preserved ceremony cloak. After the town of Sopot, the students visited the town of Kalofer and «Hristo Botev» National Museum situated at the «Botev garden» Park. They saw the monument of Botev’s mother Ivanka Boteva as well as the hall, in which the belongings and works of Botev have been preserved. The students mounted the memorial complex up to the monument of the eminent revolutionary. On their way back the students passed over the river Tundja bridge.
