“Fisherman’s Quarter” Architectural Ensemble<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to immerse yourself in the fishing past of Tutrakan, after visiting the Ethnographic Museum – Danube Fishing and Boat Building<\/em> , continue along the main street in an easterly direction and once you reach the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra, built by the group of Usta Gencho Kanchev from Tryavna in 1865,<\/em> go down to the almost kilometer-long “Fisherman’s” street and there is no way you can not feel the breeze of old fishing stories – about church processions on St. Nicholas Day, about boats full of “tutrakanki” with catch, about stretched nets ready to be mended, about laughter and sadness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can still see authentic fishermen’s houses that time and human negligence have not managed to take away from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Be sure to look for Anka Moneva \u2013 an animator in the \u201cFishermen’s Quarter\u201d architectural complex,<\/em> to take you on a fascinating journey through the 150-200-year-old past of the quarter \u2013 the story is supported by hundreds of authentic household items of Tutrakans who lived in and around the quarter, painstakingly collected by her and donated by local residents. Here is one of the stories of the sweet-talking Mrs. Moneva: \u201cUntil 1954, the Danube froze with the ice one and a half meters thick and people calmly crossed from one bank to the other, even playing \u2026 hockey. Because the water was clean and froze easily. In winter, musicians, the so-called laudars, would come on the ice from the opposite Romanian bank and here, in the fishermen’s quarter, it became very cheerful and lively. Our men returned from seasonal fishing and so the cold months were spent knitting nets, repairing boats, wine barrels, and listening to the music of Romanian laudars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even today, at the beginning and end of the street, you will find fish markets. Near one of them, under the church, is the “Lodkostroitel” factory – the modern equivalent of the old Tutrakan master boatmen – a long-standing manufacturer of vessels and technical products made of fiberglass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next to the other fish market \u2013 on the eastern end \u2013 is the boat dock. From there, usually after sunset, today’s fishermen \u2013 usually hereditary fishermen in the city \u2013 set off to catch fish. They return early in the morning to stock the fish markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mobile phone Anka Moneva \u2013 00359 897580732<\/p>\n\n\n\n