Humour at the Humour Museum in Gabrovo, Bulgaria

Don Quixote statue. Museum of Humour. Gabrovo. Bulgaria.

Humour is featured in the Museum of Humour and Satire and the whole city's culture. They were known for their business skill, bargaining ability and mean-ness, like the cities of Aberdeen in Scotland, and made a feature of jokes, such as the one about Gabrovoans cutting off the tails of their cats in order to shut the door quicker and keep in the heat. (Gabrovo is known for walking in sunny summer and skiing in winter snow.)

The cat is the symbol of the town and appears on their brochures. They have a statue of the cat without a tail.

The museum also features Charlie Chaplin.

Useful Websites
http://www.humorhouse.bg/

Useful Websites For Travellers

ryanair.com

skyscanner.com

traveloka.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Bulgaria

https://wikitravel.org/en/Gabrovo

Artists who created Giant artworks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude#Christo

About the author, Angela Lansbury
Travel writer and photographer, author and humorous speaker, teacher of English and other languages.
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Museum of Humour in Gabrovo, Bulgaria - what will you see?

Don quixote statue outside the Museum of Humour, Gabrovo, Bulgaria.

Here's a funny thing. I was in a hotel in Borovets, the Rila Hotel, looking for the lift, when I came across a stand with what looked like chocolate. It turned out to be some kind of thick plum jelly.

The stand was for a place I did not know, Gabrovo. I took all the brochures and found one of my favourite long lost museums, The Museum of Humour and Satire.

In Bulgaria I learned lots of basic facts about the country. For example, on websites and elsewhere bg is short for Bulgaria.

Outside the museum, I can see from their publicity photo, they have a horseback statue of, guess who? Obviously Don Quixote, tilting at windmills, Don Quixote, hero of Spanish author Cervantes novel.

Gabrovo was also the birthplace of Christo who with his wife created giant temporary art works in cities around the world.

Getting There

Gabrovo's distance from Bulgarian airports:

• Sofia – 220 km
• Varna – 274 km
• Bourgas – 234 km
• Plovdiv – 150 km

  Both express and stopping buses connect Gabrovo with Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv.

The humour festival in in May; and June is the time for the rose harvest at the valley of the roses in this region. 

In the same region

Useful Websites
House of Humour and Satire
www.humorhouse.bg

Useful Websites For Travellers

ryanair.com

skyscanner.com

traveloka.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude#Christo

About the author, Angela Lansbury
Travel writer and photographer, author and humorous speaker, teacher of English and other languages. See other posts on Bulgaria. Please share links to your favourite posts.