Festival of Folklore in Koprivshtica was selected in 2016 on the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. The festival takes place in Koprivshtica, once in five years, 2020 festival was cancelled as a result of Kovid-19 pandemic.
Good news! XII Festival of Folklore in Koprivshtica will take place on 05-07 August 2022. Koprivshtica will be the capital of authentic Bulgarian folklore again, following a 2-year pause.
Surva festival of masquerade games was Inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2015.
Read our blog post with colourful photos of Surva Mummers' Festival in Pernik.
Chiprovtsi carpet-making was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2014.
A messages from the past: the Panagyr of Saints Constantine and Helena in the village of Bulgari, was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009
The archaic Bulgarian tradition of polyphony, dances and rituals from the Shoplouk region was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Traditional singing from Bulgaria's Dolen and Satovcha villages in Blagoevgrad region has been listed by UNESCO as part of the world's intangible cultural heritage. The so-called "visoko" (high) singing from the region is a unique four-part singing which received international recognition for the first time in 1988, when the singers from the villages of Dolen and Satovcha were awarded the Herder Prize.
