The town of Kazanlak is located in the pretty Valley of Roses at the foot of the Balkan mountains. The natural geographical centre of Bulgaria is just here where the roads of home and international tourist routes cross each other. In this area the nature has combined the beauty and majesty of the Balkan mountains with the fertility of the Tundzha river valley. The hot mineral springs of the region (located in the town of Pavel Banya and in the villages of Ovoshtnik and Yagoda) make the region more attractive for many tourists from home and abroad.

   The rose has an important role in the history of Kazanlak region. It is an unchangeable part of the life style of the local people. The rose cultivation and rose industry have been kept by generations of enterprising and hard-working people from Kazanlak. As a capital of the rose-growing region, Kazanlak hosts the annual Festival of Roses during the first week of June. This festival was held for first time in 1903 and was dedicated to the beauty and charity. Nowadays the festival is a pageant of beauty in the unique Valley of the Roses and one of the most attractive happenings both for local people and for the visitors. The festival programme includes the coronation of Queen Rose (a beauty contest in several rounds), the traditional rose-picking ritual and rose-distillation that gives you a true feeling of authenticity. The Festival ends with a street procession in which the main role is allotted for the participants of the International Folklore Festival that has been hold parallel to the Festival of Roses for some years.

   Some of the Bulgariam customs as Sirni Zagovezni and Koukerski Igri are a great tourist attraction. They are performed in the town of Pavel Banya and in the villages of Dounavtsi, Touria, Tazha, Gabarevo and Tarnichene. The village of Tarnichene attracts the tourists with its active rose-distillery. Hristo Yotov, a local wood-carver makes his plastic arts here. The Kazanlak vicinity offers excellent opportunities for the visitors to study the Bulgarian village life-style. The towns Shipka and Mazlizh and the villages Enina, Tarnichene, Dounavtsi, and Golyamo Dryanovo are renowned for the typical atmosphere of the eastern Balkan range. Almost in every town or village you can rent a room in order to experience the cosiness and hospitality of a Bulgarian home, and to try home cooked Bulgarian cuisine. The fresh Balkan air, clear mountain water, silence and calmness contribute to the pleasure to relax here.

   In 1944 the THRACIAN TOMB, world-famous for its murals was unearthed by chance during the construction of an air defence observation post. It is on UNESCO's World Heritage list. This is the only place in Bulgaria where completely preserved painting - a masterpiece of early Hellenistic art can be seen. The Thracian Tomb is located in the north part of Tyulbeto Park and dates to the end of the 4-th or early 3-rd century). A special protective structure built over Kazanlak's Thracian Tomb protects its delicate frescoes and only scholars may enter, but the replica built some 50m to the east is open to the visitors from 8.30am-6.00pm.(Tel. 24750) Recently ten more Thracian tombs-mausoleums have been unearthed near Kazanlak. Some of them are of great importance - Ostrousha - 2km south of Shipka, Golyama Arsenalka - near the village of Sheinovo, and the tombs of Shoushmanets necropolis near the town of Shipka - Helvetia, the Griffins, and the Tomb with the Columns TOMB IN OSTROUSHA MOULD  is the largest cult tomb covering an area of 100 sq.m. It consists of a chamber that bears a close resemblance to a sarcophagus, one round and three rectangular halls. The tomb is famed for the paintings in the cupola - a combination of relief and paintings, where you can see portraits, animal figures and plant ornaments. Date - 5-th century BC. THE TOMB WITH THE COLUMNS  was constructed from well polished stone blocks. It has a rectangular antechamber with a half-cylindrical dome, supported by a Ionic style column at the entrance and a round domed burial chamber. There is a Doric style column in the middle of the chamber.Date - 4-th century B.C. TOMB IN HELVETIA MOULD  was built from large stone blocks, clamped by iron braces. It consists of a long corridor, rectangular antechamber, and burial chamber. The antechamber and burial chamber are covered by a flat roof, the walls are covered by thin mortar coat, decoratively divided into rectangles in imitation of marble blocks. Date - 4-th century B.C. TOMB IN GOLYAMA ARSENALKA MOULD  has an impressing facade (5m wide and 2.5m in height) and consists of two chambers. The last one is domed and built from large stone blocks. A stone sarcophagus by which gold treasure was found and a grave constructed of stone, moved from neighbouring moulds are situated in front of the tomb. Date - 4-th century B.C.