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Festival of Fertility

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:

  • During the period 1371-1395 Kyustendil was the capital of Velbuzhd’s region.
  • in the period 1952 - 2010 in the theater of Kyustendil 323 plays by 190 authors were performed .
  • the first fruit growing fair in the country was held in Kyustendil in 1896.