In Bulgaria there is a valley, tucked away between the Balkan Range and the Sredna Gora Mountains, where hundreds of thousands of roses are in bloom in May and June. If you should visit it at this time of the year, you will be able to attend a beautiful festival in the Bulgarians' working calendar - the rose-picking season.

  The trip will also acquaint you with the National Revival past of the picturesque Balkan small towns of Sopot, Karlovo and Kalofer and Kazanluk, with the Museum of the Rose and the Kazanluk Tomb, a unique monument of Hellenic times, included in the List of World Heritage.
  To the foreign observer the unusual rites and symbols become part of the image of the Bulgarian,of his traditions. Roses and the care for them are history, economy, customs and rites, symbol and glory.

  
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
Eighty per cent of the world`s attar of roses is obtained in the Valley of Roses
Three and half tons of rose petals go into the making of one kilogram of attar of roses which has the price of gold
The Bulgarian attar of roses is used as an important component in the perfumery business throughout the world
Kazanluk boasts the Balkan`s only scientific research institute of the rose where over 1500 types of roses from all parts of the world have been gathered.