Bistritsa
Foothill village below Vitosha with medieval monastery ruins, villa zones and UNESCO-honoured singers.
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This audio guide to Bistritsa, a village on the foothills of Vitosha at the edge of Sofia, starts with a church rebuilding in the nineteen-forties and a medieval tomb that someone else had reached first. It follows money through the village's story, from a tsar's coinage in the last years before the Ottoman conquest to a villager who paid for books when the community had none. Along the way you meet the hall that seeded the Bistritsa Babi, the grandmothers whose singing UNESCO honours.
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