City - carnival celebration " Forgiveness Sunday in Troyan"

The Troyan Community Centre "Nauka - 1870" annually organizes a city- carnival celebration "Forgiveness Sunday in Troyan". Guests can see an interesting reenactment of the local custom and a festive program featuring folk performers. Forgiveness Sunday is an important winter-spring holiday in the folk calendar. The holiday is celebrated seven weeks before Easter and lasts a week, during which various rituales and customs are performed. This is the time of the Kukeri and carnivals. Dairy and egg products are put on the festive table, and on Sundays, bonfires (claddaghs) are also lit and after they burn down, they are jumped over for good health, and then people play around them and sing songs. The custom of lighting bonfires and spinning uruguliviks (torches made of dried cherry tree bark that are spun around the ritual fire) is still alive in Troyan and Troyan Region but it is considered as a curious attraction, freed from the old ritual sense.