Kazanluk
 Kazanluk is the largest town in the Valley of Roses and the main producer of attar of roses. Annual Festival of Roses is held here.
This area has been inhabited since the remotest past. Remains from the Neolithic Age are abundant. The nearby passes in the Balkan Mountains were intensively used by the Romans, Byzantines and Ottoman Turks. Seuthopolis, the great city of the Thracian kingdom, was situated nearby, as well as the old Bulgarian fortress of Krun.
More than 450 Thracian burial mounds have been discovered in the countryside. Kazanluk contains the only Thracian Tomb with wall paintings entirely preserved. It gives idea of the cultural achievements of the earliest inhabitants of the present-day Bulgarian territory - the Thracians. It dates back from 4 century BC. The wall paintings are unique in the history of art. |
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