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The Valley of Roses
	Historical facts
	To visit Bulgaria and not go to the Valley of Roses is to go to Egypt and not see the pyramids. The Valley of Roses is in the very heart of the country and is shielded by the high slopes of two majestic mountain ranges - the Balkan and Sredna Gora. The rose, the queen of flowers, has been focusing the attention of people since the remote past as a symbol of beauty and youth. It was the Phoenicians who organized first the feast of the blessed flower. Cleopatra chose the rose for her palaces; her bathroom and numerous cosmetic substances all had a rose smell. The ancient Greeks decorated their temples with roses. Homer described rose oil in the "Iliad" and in the "Odyssey". In his "Natural History" Pliny mentions the rose that was grown in Thrace.


	The rose - a symbol of perfect love
	The Romans lavishly spent on rose fragrances; they adorned the feast tables with roses and Nero "invented" the rose rain. Christianity reinterpreted the symbol of fleeting pleasure as the symbol of perfect love and adorned the most virtuous maids with roses.

	The rose - a kind of Bulgarian currency
	On the first of March we celebrate the beginning of spring. The day is called Baba Marta (or Grandma Marta in English). On that day you give a special present called a "martenitsa" to all the people you love. The "martenitsa" is small, two coloured and made of thread - white and red. Usually they (the martenitsas) look like a girl and a boy together.

	The Rose - a kind of Bulgarian currency
	The emergence of the perfume industry in France in the 17th century triggered off the rapid development of rose production, including the Bulgarian lands. Rose oil that was extracted, as in ancient times by the distillation of fresh rose petals, which were treated with water steam became a kind of Bulgarian currency.

	The Attar of Roses
	For centuries Bulgarians have planted roses, picked their flowers and extracted their heavenly essence – attar of roses. The rose, this marvellous gift of the land, is admired and used in perfumery, pharmacy and food industry.

	The Festival of Roses
	The Rose Valley is magically transformed with breath-taking blooms in May and early June each year when The Festival of Roses is celebrated in many towns of the region. Rose picking rituals and folklore displays are presented.
	Rose Festivals 2005 year
	29-th May 2005 /Sunday / - the village of Kanchevo, Kazanluk district 4-th June 2005 / Saturday / -the town of Karlovo 4-th June 2005 / Saturday / - the town of Kazanluk (PDF) 5-th June 2005 / Sunday / - the town of Kazanluk 12-th June 2005 / Sunday / - the town of Pavel Banya

	Queen Rose
	The festival program 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.

	Afact of interest - Bulgarian Rose Adds Scent to World Famous Beauty Product
	Bulgarian rose is one of the main ingredients in the new Helena Rubinstein creme called "Life Pearl". The news was broken on 17 March 2004, by the fashion magazine Vogue. The Bulgarian rose adds a different scent to the fragrance of the creme made by a subtle mixture of Moroccan Iris concrete and Indian jasmine. Specialists working at the Helena Rubinstein beauty laboratories have also added cyto-pearl consistencies to the new product said to deliver a concentrate of rare active ingredients to the very heart of skin's cells.


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