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Bulgaria Landmarks > Museum Towns p.2
Kotel, famous centre for carpet making, has over 110 National Revival houses, the first in Europe 'Philip Kutev' Secondary Musical School
for Folk Singing and Instrumental Music, the Ethnographic museum, the Holy Trinity and the Sts Apostles Peter and Paul churches.
Tryavna, one of the most beautiful Bulgarian museum towns, is famous with the oldest school of art in Bulgaria - Tryavna Art School, the Clock Tower (1814), the churches St Archangel Michael
(1819) and St George (1848), the Museum of the Tryavna School of Icon Painting, many unique house-museums, the Old School (1839), the Ethnographic museum, etc.
Arbanassi, a picturesque village noted for its unique stone-built houses, the 17th-century churches-museums Birth of Christ, Sts Archangels Michael and Gabriel, St Athanasius, St George and St
Demetrius, the monasteries St Nicolas and the Holy Virgin.
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