Literary Tours in Plovdiv - ROUTE ІI

Everyone interested in Plovdiv's literary past and present will have an opportunity to learn about the city's spiritual history by visiting places and monuments dedicated to notable people and events in the city's literary life. This is a somewhat nontraditional way of entering the literary spaces and will be implemented through original tours across the city along several literary routes.

Led by knowledgeable tourist guides, the participants will be meeting with specialists, writers, actors and artists. The tours will be summarised in a brief, written guide. The concept and literary texts for the talks will be prepared by Dr Vladimir Yanev, a teacher at the Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv who studies Bulgarian literary heritage.

ROUTE II – Old town 1 - 20 April 2019

The trip will be guided by Dr Vladimir Yanev, a literary scholar and teacher in Bulgarian literature at Paisii Hilendarski University at Plovdiv, and students from the university.
Special guest will be Matey Mateev, an artist, poet and author, and longtime curator of the Zlatyuo Boyadzhiev house-museum.

Meeting point: Tsanko Lavrenov monument.
City Art Gallery.
Permanent exhibition of Zlatyu Boyadzhiev: Who is Dr. Stoyan Chomakov? Ivan Teofilov - poetry of painting and painting of poetry.
In the heart of the Old Town: Church "St. Constantine and Elena", Permanent exposition of Bulgarian icons, Hissar Kapia, Ethnographic museum.
The Memorial Plaque of Nikola Alvadjiev: The chronicler of the different Plovdiv. ("Plovdiv Chronicle", "In the Shadows of the ancient Plovdiv")
Gallery "The Red Pony": Nacho Kulturata - the good spirit of the Old City.
Nebet hill: The peaks of History.
Monument of P. Kr. Yavorov: The Poet in Plovdiv.


Programme for April:

19.04. from 18:00 – meeting point – Seventh hill – route І
20.04. from 11:00 – meeting point – Tsanko Lavrenov monument – route ІІ
21.04. from 11:00 – meeting point – Museum of Natural History – route ІІІ

Plovdiv authors will participate in the routes. Ivan Strandzhev, Yordan Velchev, Anton Baev, Matthew Mateev, Stanko Stoyanov, Nedyalko Slavov, Petar Anastasov, Alexander Sekulov, George Trak, Ivan Valev and others are invited.

Facebook event here.

The project is a production of the Lettera Publishers – Nadya Furnadzhieva.