Culture
Festival of Fertility
The Festival of Fertility marks the successful beginning of autumn in the town of Kyustendil and declares it again the orchard of Bulgaria. This autumn holiday of abundance stems from the First National Fruit-Growing Fair in 1896 and is the first and only festival…
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Do you know that:
- in 1966 Kyustendil was declared a national resort.
- Kyustendil was the last of the big Bulgarian towns to fall under Ottoman rule.
- first Bulgarian publisher, Yakov Kraikov, was born in Kyustendil.




