the old town and other Dobrich, Bulgaria Things to Do Tips

"The old Dobrich" is a smal "open-air" museum located in the modern downtown on the place where once upon of the time "Odun charshia" existed. It houses about 30 workshops where craftsmen practice their skills. You can see workshops for pottery, furriery, traditional costumes, traditional instruments; woodcarving, coppersmithery,goldsmithery and so many more.

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Address: Across the street from Hotel Bulgaria
Directions: downtown

there is no way for me to come to the old town and not visit this pottery and buy things. There are lots of other craftsmen here in the old part making all kinds of traditional stuff (traditional costumes and souvenirs and musical instruments)

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Address: the old town
Directions: old town actually it's very very small- it's mostly one street with all the shops on it.

this is how the pottery workshop looks from outside; the name is "Chupi Kupi" which translates into sometghin like " If you break it, you byu it!". It is not so easy to break though. First time i wanted to buy something i was afraid it might be easy to break it during my travel, so the lady took one of the plates and threw it against the floor...it did not break. But she says also that if you break something you'll have to make a new pottery yourself under the guidance of her two sons, who create all these amazing beaty!

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in the very beginning of the street you will see a little bakery where they bake "gevreci". ..oh, they are so yummy-hot, taken right out of the oven. On the right hand side of the bakery there is a small "boza-djiinica". Here you can eat your gevrek with a fresh made "boza".

1 gevrek costs 0.30lv (1$=1.6lv)

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Address: old town
Directions: in the beginning of old town

it's hard to describe- it's dry and salty made out of dough..heheh.......great for breakfast with boza and ayryan boza = thick fermented drink made ot different kind of flour, but the best is from millet; boza is drank in other Balkan countries- it came from Turky.
ayryan= also comes from Turkey = yogurt and water

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Visit the City Historical Museum. It houses few collections from prehistorical and ancient times until nowadays. Here u can see artifacts from the times when Dobrudja was inhabited among all by the thracians of the Geti tribe, by the the pecheneges, the early bulgarian tribes, and many many more. Here is one of the largest collection in bulgaria of late medieval arms

Also part oh the historical museum is the Ethnographical house, located right next to the "St. Georgi" church.

Open Mon thru Fri, from 9am to 6pm

the ticket for students is 20 stotinki and for adults is 50stotinki!!!!! if u want a guide then u pay 1 lev (1$=1.3 leva); It's very cheap, isn't it!

The museum has a nice website but is in bulgarian only!

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Phone: ++359-58-28256
Address: Street "Konstantin Stoilov"#18
Website: http://www.museum.dobrich.net/
Other Contact: pr_museum@dobrich.net

The gallery has history on its own: the building used to house the City Court until 1940,then it was a Police station (one can still see the cells) and then it was used by the Communist Party till 1981.

it has a great website and it has english version too

Working time:
9.00 – 12.30 / 13.30 – 18.00
monday - friday

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Phone: 00359 58 602 215; 00359 58 602 0
Address: 14, Bulgaria St.,
Directions: downtown
Website: http://gallery.dobrich.com/
Other Contact: gallerydobrich@hotmail.com