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Extract from the Eleshnitsa Travel Guides:
Nestling among hills 10km northeast of Dobrinishte, the small grey town of
ELESHNITSA
is unlikely to make much of an impression on the global tourist industry - not least because it's the site of Bulgaria's largest uranium mine. However it's also the venue for some of the most remarkable
Kukeri celebrations
in the country, which here take place on Easter Sunday instead of January, the usual time for their enactment elsewhere. Each of the town's three
mahalas
or quarters organizes a team of mummers or
kukeri
who, dressed from head to toe in sheepskins, converge on the town square,...
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