Kazanlak
Festival of the Rose
Every first week of June, in Kazanlak, takes place the Rose Festival. The rose is the symbol of Bulgaria. The Bulgarian rose oil is the best in the world and it is used mainly in the luxury French perfumery. Rose oil is extracted from roses at the end of May and the beginning of June, early in the morning before the morning dew falls. For the manufacturing of about 1 kg of rose oil 3000 kg of rose petals must be processed. Therefore rose oil is even more expensive than gold, but that's not so important. What is important however, is that rose oil is one of the symbols of Bulgaria, it does not exist nowhere else except Bulgaria, nor is manufactured elsewhere. Roses could be found everywhere and they are always beautiful, but Bulgarian rose, that magical rose, which every woman carries with her parfum, without even knowing it, exists only in Bulgaria and not everywhere in the country, but only in Kazanlak and Karlovo region, where climate conditions are very specific. The festivals refer mainly to the traditional rituals of rose picking and rose boiling, recreated in authentic environment with many songs, dances and carnival parades. The festival continues two or three days. Young men and women, dressed in national costumes, welcome the guests of the festival and decorate them with garlands of rose blossoms. The most beautiful girl on the festival is nominated and crowned as the Queen of Roses. Guests are treated with the traditional banitsa, rose jam and rose liquor.
Every first week of June, in Kazanlak, takes place the Rose Festival. The rose is the symbol of Bulgaria. The Bulgarian rose oil is the best in the world and it is used mainly in the luxury French perfumery. Rose oil is extracted from roses at the end of May and the beginning of June, early in the morning before the morning dew falls. For the manufacturing of about 1 kg of rose oil 3000 kg of rose petals must be processed. Therefore rose oil is even more expensive than gold, but that's not so important. What is important however, is that rose oil is one of the symbols of Bulgaria, it does not exist nowhere else except Bulgaria, nor is manufactured elsewhere. Roses could be found everywhere and they are always beautiful, but Bulgarian rose, that magical rose, which every woman carries with her parfum, without even knowing it, exists only in Bulgaria and not everywhere in the country, but only in Kazanlak and Karlovo region, where climate conditions are very specific. The festivals refer mainly to the traditional rituals of rose picking and rose boiling, recreated in authentic environment with many songs, dances and carnival parades. The festival continues two or three days. Young men and women, dressed in national costumes, welcome the guests of the festival and decorate them with garlands of rose blossoms. The most beautiful girl on the festival is nominated and crowned as the Queen of Roses. Guests are treated with the traditional banitsa, rose jam and rose liquor.
