BULGARIA truffle adventure - TRUFFLE SEARCH!

Private vacation in a private and cozy atmosphere! BULGARIA / CITY ELENA / VILLAGE KOSTEL / GPS: N 42.8901530 E 25. 9933893 -------------------------------- ----------------------- Experience the power of water, forests and mountains. This summer or winter, spring or autumn you can recharge your batteries in seclusion! Drink fresh mountain water, enjoy organic home cooking delicacies and taste homemade wines and mulled wine by the fireplace. Truffle hunting, lake or mountain river fishing and riding lessons. Take a leisurely hike with us, looking for ancient Roman treasures or artifacts in a historic area. Visit palaces, castles and museums on the traces of the ancient Romans! The Bulgarian cuisine is extremely diverse and tasty. It contains numerous salads, pasta, stews and regional specialties that are only served in certain areas of the country. Many of the dishes are prepared according to old recipes that are passed on from generation to generation. Enjoy the price Includes the brand new range and program from Lux Casstelo Pallast. Main focus of your trip: Enjoyment around the noble tuber: private truffle search with a walk in the forest accompanied by a trufolaio (truffle master) and his dog. Introduction to the technique of truffle hunting, insider tips about the noble mushroom in the kitchen and enjoying truffle dishes! ************************************************** ******** Casstelo Pallast is located in Bulgaria 13 km from Sdadt Elena. The city of Elena extends to the higher parts of the Pre-Balkans, 40 km from Veliko Tarnovo and 260 km from Sofia. It has a population of 6500. ******************************************* **************** According to historical evidence, the Elena basin was already in the late Neolithic period (4000 BC BC) inhabited. There are signs of life from the Thracian, Roman and early Byzantine eras. Elena was founded as a settlement at the end of the Second Bulgarian Empire (end of the 14th Century) connected. After the capital, Tarnovo, was conquered by the Ottomans in 1393, the Tarnovo bolyaren (nobles below the rank of a prince) and the upper class settled permanently in the region because they had their feudal possessions here. In the years of the Ottoman rule (1393 - 1878) Elena gradually developed into an administrative, craft, cultural, educational and commercial center. The main occupation of the population was agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts. The s. G. Elena experienced the “golden age” in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Century, when the handicrafts blossom: the blanket weaving ("guberi": thick woolen blankets with long fringes), the painting, the mutafchiystvo (the processing and manufacture of objects made of goat wool), and. a. The city's economic prosperity in the early 19th Century was also the basis for the development of culture and education. In Elena today numerous houses and public buildings from the different architectural periods have been preserved. Almost 200 of them are cultural monuments and 7 of them are of national importance. One of the most important buildings in the city is the Ilarion Makariopolski House Museum, one of the oldest surviving houses. It was built in the years 1710-1715 and is located in the city center. It is a two-storey building with a large attic, which was also the birthplace of Ilarion Makariopolski (1812 - 1875), a clergyman and activist in the struggle for an independent Bulgarian church, and of the poet Stoyan Mihaylovski (1856 -