Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex
Етъра
An open-air folk museum on the outskirts of Gabrovo, where water-powered mills and dozens of Revival-period craft workshops are still in operation.
Etar is laid out along a river valley with about 50 buildings, including water-powered mills, sawmills, weaving and fulling workshops, and a craft street of two-story wooden houses. Artisans make copperware, pottery, knives, sweets and textiles on site, and visitors can buy them. Admission is about 5 euros. It is about 50 km from Veliko Tarnovo, roughly an hour by car, and the nearby Sokolski Monastery is worth a stop on the way.
Opening hours
Summer 08:30–18:00; winter 09:00–17:00
Nearby sights
- Sokolski Monastery
- Shipka Monument (Freedom Monument)
- House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo
- Buzludzha Monument
- Shipka Memorial Church
- Bozhentsi
- Tryavna
- Dryanovo Monastery & Bacho Kiro Cave