hotel-mehana GOZBAROV'S HOUSE

Hotel “Gozbarov’s house” - Koprivshtitsa.  
If you give a look at the windows, you will be impressed of the alluring landscapes of the town-museum. In spring you feel like you are flying over a sea of bloom trees, alight between tile-roofs. In summer a lot of songbirds with their songs change this kingdom of calm into unique concert of sounds and joy.  Autumn is in blaze hues. Winter is a fairy white tale. The windows of each room in that fine house reveal new scenery, each of which reminds of wealthy history of Koprivshtitsa. That little village is situated on 1060meters midst of woody hills of Sredna Gora Mountain.  Koprivshtitsa came in to being about 15-th century.  The coming of the town connected with Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria. In 1393 the Turkish conquer the Tarnovo. It was the capital of Second Bulgarian kingdom. After that a lot of inhabitants of Tarnovo left the town and found a shelter in the mountains. They and other refuges from different Bulgarian towns came in region of Koprivshtitsa. They were the first inhabitants of   Koprivshtitsa. They started to build their houses and they and their children created the village during a few centuries.  That little village gave to Bulgaria a lot of famous people – bookman like Naiden Gerov, Joakim Gruev and Hristo Pulekov, revolutionaries like Georgi Benkovski, Todor Kableshkov and Liuben Karavelov, politicians – ministers and diplomats like Petko Karavelov, Mihail Madjarov, Rashko Madjarov and others. Koprivshtitsa is the place of birth of the tenderest Bulgarian poet, Dimcho Debelianov.  In that town on 20-th of April broke out the April uprising and bells of old church heralded Bulgarian freedom. 
The old “Gozbarov’s house” was built in 1832 and adapted as a hotel in 2006. The house is situated in the most picturesque part of the town – “Lambovska” neighborhood which is called also “Kokon” neighborhood. The word “kokona” means “coquette”.  Now the house is hotel which keeps cordiality and fascination of old Kprivshtitsa’s home with colored, decorated walls, atmosphere of old-time and hospitable hosts. There is a good tavern with national food. 
Museums of Koprvshtitsa give us to touch the sacred place of Blgarian history.
Gozbarov’s house helps us to feel the romantic of the old-time.