The Town
Troyan's bus station lies a couple of blocks east of the town centre, where the inevitable flagstoned main square plays host to the Museum of Folk Crafts and Applied Arts (Tues-Sun 8am-noon & 1-5pm; US$1), a superbly organized display with English-language texts. Here you'll find comprehensive displays of local ceramics, wood-carvings, musical instruments and folk costumes, as well as reconstructions of a wood-turner's workroom and a nineteenth-century house. Also look out for the beautifully made scale-model of a street scene with busy workshops and houses, where the attention to detail is breathtaking. Troyan became a major centre of ceramic production in the nineteenth century, and most of the souvenir pottery you'll see for sale around Bulgaria is still made here. Troyan wares are instantly recognizable from the Troyanska kapka ("Troyan droplet") design, achieved by allowing successive layers of colour to drip down the side of the vessel before glazing. A few items are on sale in the museum, and visits to local ceramicists, which usually involve an opportunity to purchase, can be organized through the tourist office. Next door to the Museum of Folk Crafts is the Historical Museum , holding the usual patriotic exhibition chronicling the Uprising and Liberation, and occupying a building once used as a Turkish police station - you will need to ask staff at the Museum of Folk Crafts to open it up.
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