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Girls from the Gabrovo region reenact the lazaruvane custom

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Photo: Etara Ethnographic Museum

For yet another year, the girls from the "School for Lazarki" at the Etara Ethnographic Museum, near Gabrovo, recreated the custom of lazaruvane, BTA reported. 5


7 girls from Gabrovo, Dryanovo and Tryavna took part in the ritual as they filled the outdoor museum with their songs, and the custom was also shown in Tryavna and Dryanovo. 
The interest of young girls in the training on recreating customs is increasing and the groups are growing every year, the organizers note, and on holidays hundreds of tourists visit the reenactments of Bulgarian rites.



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