ADDRESS Real Estate Agency offers for sale the Kokoshkarova house in Melnik. The property is situated in a plot of 250 sq. m and is located in the central part of the town, with direct visibility from the main street. The house has living area of 122 sq.m and gross floor area of 250 sq.m. It has one residential floor, consisting of 5 rooms with wonderful view to the Melnik Sand Pyramids, a spacious entrance hall and a bathroom/WC. Some of the rooms have ceilings with wood-carving. There is a cellar with a high ceiling on the ground floor, very suitable for storing wine. In the cellar there is differentiated semi-basement of wooden beams. The connection between the residential floor and the cellar is via an internal wooden staircase.
Basics of the building are solid stone masonry, while the residential floor is with wooden trimmer joists. The house has electricity, water and drainage facilities. It is suitable for permanent habitation or a small hotel complex with a tavern.
The property has approved by the National Institute for Monuments of Culture visa for reconstruction of the Kokoshkarova house into a Guest house/hotel with a tavern. Along the house pass the routes of the tourists who visit St. Virgin Mary Monastery, St. Haralampius Monastery, St. Nikola Church and Despot Slav Fortress.
About Melnik.
Melnik is the smallest town both in Bulgaria and in Europe. It is located 22 km southeast from the municipality center Sandanski. The town is situated on the southwestern slopes of Southern Pirin, among an overwhelming nature made of sand pyramids and screes, at about 400 m above sea level.
Melnishka river flows through the town. In its vicinity vineyards are grown, mainly the kind of large vine of Melnik and the famous wine of Melnik is produced. It was sold in the East, in the West Europe, in England, in Russia and in Ukraine.
Melnik is an ancient town with its remarkable revival architecture. It is a treasure place of archeological, architectural and historical monuments of the Bulgarian Revival. It is a center of a rich spiritual life that has preserved the Bulgarian national self-consciousness through educational work and church constructions, abundantly decorated by artists from Melnik art school. The Kordopulova house, the Boyards house, the churches St Barbara, St Antony, St Virgin Mary, St Nicola and Sts Peter and Pavel are declared architectural monuments of national importance.
Southeast from the town is located the hill St Nicola where one can see remains of fortress walls and a feudal castle from 9th -10th centuries and the monastery St Virgin Mary Spileotisa, built in 12th century by the boyar Alexi Slav, son of King Kaloyan's sister. Melnik is declared a town museum as well as a cultural and historical reserve. Nowadays Melnik restores its former glory and offers opportunities of cultural tourism and recreation in old houses with their centuries-old wine-cellars where hosts offer the famous wine of Melnik, as well as in new hotels built in the tradition of the revival house of Melnik. |