불가리아는 ‘장미의 나라’로 불린다. 세계 로즈오일의 절반 이상이 불가리아에서 생산된다.
카잔루크는 그중에서도 가장 많은 장미가 피는 도시다. 매년 6월이 되면 이곳에서 장미 축제가 열린다.
장미산업에 종사하는 사람들이 축제 기간 장미로 장식된 옷을 입고 장미 여왕들과 함께 행진한다.
시민들은 옆에서 장미를 던지며 풍성한 수확을 기원한다.
불가리아의 상징인 장미는 토마토와 레몬의 약 20배에 달하는 풍부한 비타민 A, C의 함유량으로
피부에 생기를 부여해 화장품 성분으로 사용되고 있으며
특히, 이른 새벽 공기 중에 향기가 날아가기 전 장미를 수확해 수작업으로 얻은
장미 3,000송이에서 얻을 수 있는 1g의 장미 오일은 그 희소성을 더한다.
About Rose Festival
Rosa Damascena bush
Rosa Damascena is the name of the oil-yielding rose,
which made Bulgaria famous for production of the best rose oil in the world.
“Born” in Syria, Damascus, Rosa Damascena mill was brought to Bulgarian lands during the 17the century
–Bulgaria then was part of the Ottoman Empire.
This full of aroma rose found a second home in Bulgaria. It gave its name to a whole region – The Rose valley of Bulgaria.
Extending more than 130 km along the Balkan mountain range,
the Rose valley is surrounded by two mountains, which stop the cold winds in the wintertime and help create a specific climate.
The combination of several factors makes this region a unique place for growing this sort of rose.
The oil extracted from it is the best quality in the world.
So the Valley of Roses became a centre of rose oil production and export for centuries.
The Rose Valley includes Karlovo and Kazanlak fields, as well as some parts of the Nova Zagora fields.
The Total area is about 3,300 square kilometers.
Rosa Damascena Blooming Season
The rose bushes flower for about 25 days a year from mid-May to mid-June.
The blooms are picked by hand early in the morning when the aroma is strongest,
and transported in small quantities to the distillery.
Seedlings come from the Rose Research Institute at Kazanluk,
which has developed several Damascena rose varieties suited to conditions in the valley.
International buyers pay for the Bulgarian product prices reaching Euro 14,000 a kilo organic rose oil.(2017)
Rose Festival in Kazanlak
Every year, during the first weekend of June, local community in Kazanlak organizes the annual Rose Festival.
The first festival took place 108 years ago, in 1903.
Celebrations were held annually, at the beginning of the rose- harvesting period.
Karlovo and Pavel Banya- also known for their rose production, started organizing local rose festivals, too.
Manufacturers from the whole valley gather dressed up in rose flowers.
Mummers, called “koukeri” take part in the street parade. People sing and dance in the streets during the whole fest.
Three main events are worth a visit
– early morning harvesting ritual in the rose fields, the electing of Queen Rose and the parade along the streets of each town.
The processions and the celebrations last for two days.
The climax of the festival in on Sunday when Queen Rose is being elected a
nd festival parade takes place along the main streets of each village.
There are other interesting events, taking place during the festival weekend
– choir a cappella and folklore concerts, art shows, exhibitions, wine-tasting, gourmet-shows, etc.
The Rose Festival and the fame of the Bulgarian oil-yielding rose attract numerous visitors from all parts of the world,
the most numerous are visitors from Japan, Taiwan and France.
Rose Museum, Kazanlak
The only museum in the world, dedicated to the oil-yielding plant – rose, is situated in the town of Kazanlak.
The Rose Museum is housed in the old building of the Rose Institute. The rose is one of the symbols of Bulgaria.
The museum is a part of the Historical Museum “Iskra” in Kazanlak.
In 1967 a small exposition was created, which was dedicated to rose-picking in Kazanlak and the region.
In 1969 the exposition grew into an independent museum.
Nowadays the Rose Museum stores more than 15 000 exponents related to rose-picking and rose-production in Bulgaria.
South China is considered the motherland of oil-yielding rose.
In Bulgaria the plant was introduced by the Ottoman Turks.
According to written evidence, industrial quantities of oil-yielding rose have been produced in Bulgaria since 1650.
In 1740 a French company exported from Bulgaria the first batch of rose oil.
During that time the Bulgarian rose oil was a preferred raw material for the French perfume producers.
The museum exposition includes original pictures and documents of the development of rose production,
instruments for processing of the rose gardens, vessels for storing and exporting rose oil and rose water.
Restorations of a rose warehouse and the first laboratory for examination of rose oil created in 1912 are made in the museum.
one of the biggest attractions in the museum is a rose oil vessel which had been used for the last time in 1947
to this day a strong rose scent can still be smelled around it.
Even nowadays, rose-picking is among the most important events in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria.
It is accompanied by multiple celebrations.
Every year here the Rose Celebration is conducted it is one of the most attractive festivals in Bulgaria.
The Rose Festival was celebrated for the first time in 1903,
and since then the traditional celebration has been conducted in the first weekend of June.
This is the period in which oil-yielding Kazanlak Rose blossoms.
The event attracts thousands of guests in the town and is related to multiple events – rose-picking,
rose-boiling demonstrations, international folklore festival, festal procession and crowning of a Rose Queen.
Rose-picking in Bulgaria is conducted during the month of May.
It starts early in the morning, when the blooming rose flower is poured with dew which preserves the rose oil
and is essential for the extraction of the plant oil.
The Bulgarian rose oil has exceptionally high quality because of the technology according to which it is manufactured
– the double distillation method and the intermediate cooling.
This way the yielding of rose oil from rose water is raised by three times.
Even to this day, due to its high quality, the Bulgarian rose oil is still one of the most preferred raw materials
by the French perfume producers.
Visitors can purchase informational materials, souvenirs, cosmetics, Rose jam, rose liquor, aroma oils, etc. in the Museum shop.
Rose Valley in Bulgaria
Sunset over the Rose Valley in Bulgaria
Bulgaria rose valley, the first producer of roses in the world for oils.
Kazanlak is center of oil industry. Rose picking in May and June.
Rose Museum, Kazanlak(카잔루크)
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