The Village
Chiprovtsi lacks the historic buildings that would put it firmly on the tourist route, and it's really the surrounding bowl of pastured hills that give the village its visual appeal. Buses come to rest beside a modern flagstoned square, from where a lane ascends to the right to the National Revival-era Church of Vasnesenie Hristovo (the Resurrection), a sunken structure that harbours valuable icons but is rarely open. The ruins of a Catholic basilica can be traced in the grass outside. The next-door museum (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun 10am-4pm; if closed, call at the museum administration office on the opposite side of the road; $1) tells the story of the village in familiar words-and-pictures style. There are some delicately filigreed buckles, clasps and necklaces made by seventeenth-century silversmiths, and a whole room devoted to Chiprovtsi carpets , where museum staff are usually on hand to demonstrate the workings of a traditional stan or vertical loom.
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