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Extract from the Bozhentsi Travel Guides:
Lying roughly between Gabrovo and Tryavna,
BOZHENTSI
's cluster of two-storey houses with stone roofs and wooden verandahs gives some idea of the museum-village Tryavna could so easily have become. According to legend, Bozhentsi was founded by survivors of the fall of Trnovo, led by the noblewoman Bozhena and her nine sons. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Bozhentsi grew prosperous through the enterprise of its smiths, potters and weavers, and local merchants who traded as far afield as Hungary and Russia.
There are well over a hundred listed buildings in the village, but the main highlights are the...
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