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If you walk southwards on Ivan Vazov, you'll soon arrive at pl. Saedinenie and a spacious blue and white building that houses the Muzei "Vazrazhdane i Ureditelno sabranie " - the Museum of the National Revival and the Constituent Assembly (Wed-Mon 8am-noon & 1-6pm; US$2). Designed by Kolyo Ficheto in 1872 as the Konak of the Turkish governor, Ali Bey (who mounted the trials of the rebels of 1876 here), the building subsequently hosted the first Bulgarian sabranie (parliament), which spent two months in 1879 deliberating the country's first post-Liberation constitution - afterwards known as the "Tarnovo Constitution". The union of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia (1885) was also signed here, and this hallowed building was exactly reconstructed (after being devastated by fire) in time to allow the proclamation of People's Power from the premises on September 9, 1944. The ground floor is occupied by a display of countless photographs and Bulgarian only texts, paying homage to successive generations of Bulgarian patriots and their rebellions against the Turks - notably the locally based uprisings of 1598 and 1686. Unless you can read the language, though, it's all rather tedious. On the first floor, meanwhile, is the hall in which the Provisional Assembly sat, restored to its nineteenth-century appearance, with rows of benches upholstered in red velvet facing the raised dais. Icons and ecclesiastical objects are grouped downstairs, including some fine examples from the Tryavna school; you can also look over a variety of nineteenth-century Tarnovo metal- and woodworking tools, local pottery, weights and scales used by the moneylenders and a big still for rakiya -brewing.
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