2022
The city of Panagyurishte is located in central Bulgaria, at the foot of the Sredna Gora Mountain. The city has a rich history and remarkable cultural and historical heritage. The town was founded in XII-XIV century, but a number of archaeological monuments testify to Thracian tribes living in these places in antiquity. The city is famous for the Panagyurishte gold treasure that dates from the time of the Hellenistic era and as one of the most active cities during the April Uprising in 1876.
In the city you can see The Historical Museum; House - Rayna Knyaginya Museum, Tutev House, Dudekov's House, Videlina Chitalishte, Todor. Nearby is the town-museum Koprivshtitsa, Thracian cult complex Starosel and Raiskoto praskalo.
Distances: Sofia - Panagyurishte - 104 km. Plovdiv - Panagyurishte - 80 km. Varna - Panagyurishte - 440
The Church of the Holy Introduction of Virgin Mary was begun in 1818 and was completed in 1923. It is a one-nave basilica with a colonnade. The master builders were from Bansko and the carpenters from Debar.
Burned during the April uprising, the church was restored in 1878-1880 by the masters from Bratsigovo and richly painted and decorated with icons by Samokov masters.
The Church of the Holy Introduction of Virgin Mary has unique frescoes and beautiful golden domes.
The National Memorial Complex "Apriltsi" is located in Panagyurishte.
It was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the April Uprising in 1976. Its creators are the sculptors Sekul Krumov, Velichko Minekov and Dimitar Daskalov, as well as the architects Ivan Nikolov and Bogdan Tomalevski.
The memorial is built on the historic Manyovo Bardo hill in the center of the city, where the bloodshed during the uprising took place on 30 April 1876. The site is one of the emblematic places to celebrate the anniversary of the April uprising. Local residents call it Boriмechka under the name of Ivan Vazov, the hero of the same name, and the central figure of the memorial.
Raina Popgeorgieva Futekova-Dipcheva, known as Rayna Knyaginya, is a Bulgarian teacher who sewed the main rebel banner of the Panagyurish Revolutionary District for the April Uprising. On the day of the announcement of the uprising, she wraps it alongside Benkovski.
Rayna Knyaginya was born on January 18, 1856, in Panagyurishte.
After the April Uprising, it was captured by the Turks and subjected to grave sufferings: bits, mistreated many times and left to bread and water more than a month in the Plovdiv prison. For her participation in the uprising and subsequent imprisonment, Zahari Stoyanov tells him in the Notes on the Bulgarian uprisings.
After the intervention of European diplomats, Raina was released and sent to study in Moscow. There she studied medicine for three years and became a midwife - the first graduate midwife in Bulgaria. She writes her autobiography, which first appeared in Russian. It was only in 1934 that it was translated into Bulgarian, this being the first book on the April Uprising. In Moscow, Raina managed to arrange through women from the Women's Charity Committee the upbringing of 32 Panagyurish orphans, including her younger brother.
Raina Foutekova was invited by Metropolitan Clement as a teacher in Tarnovo. Three years later she returned to Panagyurishte and married Vassil Dipchev, who is mayor of the town. There are five sons - Ivan, Georgi, Vladimir, Peter, and Assen - all become officers in the Bulgarian army. Rayna adopts a girl, Gina.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the April Uprising, Raina Knyaginya sewed three new flags - copies of the original. Only two of them are preserved (in the Military History Museum in Sofia and in his native house in Panagyurishte), the third copy burned during the bombing of Sofia during the Second World War.
Rayna Knyaginya - the glorious teacher and revolutionary from Panagyurishte died 61 years old on 29 July 1917.
The Oborishte Historical Site is located in the Sashtinska Sredna Gora mountain, 1km northwest of Panagyurishte, 88km from Sofia, 96km from Plovdiv and 59km from Pazardzhik. Oborishte was declared a historic site in State Gazette, issue 52 of 1977. Here in 1876 was held the first Grand National Assembly in Bulgaria's history, which decided to announce the April Uprising. The purpose of the uprising was to free the Bulgarian lands from the five centuries of Ottoman domination.
Deputies arrive in Panagurishte on 9-10 April 1876, respecting a full conspiracy. The sessions in the Oborishte area continue from 14 to 16 April. He shares the view that the uprising should have its sole leader, and after stormy disputes, the powers are given to the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Benkovski (1843-1876). Delegates decide on a ubiquitous uprising and elect a commission to develop a plan for the future revolution.
On April 20, the first shot of the revolt was given on the famous "First shotgun" bridge in Koprivshtitsa. After Panagyurishte came to the news that Koprivshtitsa had rebelled, the leaders led by Benkovski and Panayot Volov (1850-1876) declared the April Uprising.
Every year, on 2 May, national celebrations are held in the historic site. The first event of Oborishte was organized in April 1886 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the April uprising. On this celebration, a large granite stone cross is placed at the meeting place. In 1928 the monument was erected in the area. In connection with the 100th anniversary of the April Uprising, a memorial sign (marble plate) was revealed, with a message to the future generations of Bulgarians.
Rumelia wine cellar was established in 2006 in Panagyurishte. It has a production workshop, an underground barrel for wine barrels, a bottling line, a laboratory, a cozy tasting and a unique atmosphere in which guests can feel that wine is art, wine - and Rumelia's guilt - a real delight.
"Rumelia" Wine Cellar is processing quality grapes that have gathered the sun rays of Golden Thrace - a prerequisite and guarantee for the high level of the offered wines. The cellar is equipped with the most modern technology for the production of elite red wines, whose style and finesse are due to the strict quality control of each batch of grapes. The capacity of the cellar is to process 500-600 tonnes of grapes per year - to produce 400-500 thousand bottles of wine per year. The underground cellar has barrels of French, American and Bulgarian oak - with a capacity of 1000 barrels.
You can do a pre-reservation tasting.
Rumelia wine cellar has a cozy tourist degustation where guests can immerse themselves in the wine-making atmosphere and taste a selected selection of wines. The capacity is 40 seats, open all year round for all the lovers. Every day, both organized groups and individual guests are welcomed. After a short tour of the entire production process, everyone is able to sip from the divine elixir to the cooler flame of the fireplace in the winter or to the cool natural cellar in the summer.
