Panagyurishte

This was a key area in the 1876 uprising so you might expect it to be a quaint old village with traditional houses but it’s just an ordinary town, the Bulgarian equivalent of Huddersfield. That said, there were a surprising number of death notices everywhere. An afternoon is more than enough time to explore Panagyurishte and I think that’s what most people do – bussing in on day trips to visit the history museum. Our hotel was in a residential district named ‘Optikoelectron’ after a big local factory that makes vision equipment for the police and military (‘We see the invisible!’).