Bulgaria, mails in the Southeastern angle of Europe, to the doors of Asia, introduces particular characters that they differentiate it of the other Balkan Countries. Bulgaria is a species of Slavic cross road on which five centuries of Turkish domination have left a print deep.

In the character, in foods, in the Bulgarian popular art, clear infuences are found orient them while in the customs tied to the job of the earth and the cult have conserved the primitive Slavic conceptions, when not quite residual of those trace and Roman.

An important aspect of the Bulgarian character is the attachment to the nature. The Bulgarian was people mostly of agriculturists and still today agriculture covers importance in the economy of the country. The earth is famous for its yields: roseti, vineyards, fields cultivate to you to grain, rice, tobacco, ortaggi, are succeeded as far as the eye can see.

This attachment to the earth is reflected in the old legends and the rituals that accompany the various moments of the human life. The birth is encircled from fables in which the world vegetable has one function of Association of Bologna. In some feminine songs the times are recalled in which the weddings they were arranges to you from the families and the woman faced a life conjugates them like ungrateful and painful experience. Sometimes also the wedding songs have desperation accents. In other songs, pleasant freschi and, the love is idealizzato, conceived like a serious feeling, elevated, full of tenderness and gentle images. Volgarità and erotismo are not never met, rather delicate shyness, feelings, devozione.

The Bulgarians have in common with the other Balkan people the passion for the dance. The dance national is called horò. E' a girotondo without aim executed from long chains of dancers to the sound of the gadulka, the kaval and the tamburi. The feet are intercrossed therefore fast that the eye cannot follow them. In means of the circle some young people improvise dancing scenes lovings, floods of civetteria of the same country. A child leaves to fall the handkerchief, the young person collects it, chases it. The child schermisce, invents new astuteness and the game loving continues with other braces in a continuous chain.

• Bulgarian kitchen
• Fiabe
• Nestinari
• Popular music
• PopFolk and Chalga
• They Of Rose goes
• Vampiri

POPULAR FESTIVITIES

• Surovakane, in January, rituals in order to augur a happy new year
• Trifon Zarezan, 14 February, festivity of the viticoltori.
• Lazaruvane, in you open them, festivity of S. Lazaro, dedicated to the girls from husband.
• Sirenitza, the day of the forgiveness.
• Georgjovden, 6 May, festivity of the shepherds.
• Nestinarki, 21 May, festivity of the Ss. Costantino and Elena: the Nestinarki knots are dancers on foot on burning carbons.
• Vidovden, the 15 june, the day of Vida which door the hail on the earth.
• Koleduvane, to Been born them, groups of singers who go of house in house.
• Kukeri, to the last days of December, species of carnival, with masks (sirviskari) zoomorfe, legacy to the antichi cults of the fertility.