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The exhibition is presented by the National Agricultural Museum in honour of the vine-grower's holiday - "Trifon Zarezan".
For centuries Bulgarian people have created their material and spiritual culture and the agriculture has been their main occupation. The vine-growing and the wine-producing are large-scale branches of the agriculture.
It's considered that the oldest vine-growing trade in Europe had originated in Thrace more than 3000 years ago.
Actually there are lots of legends for the origin of the vine-culture. The most popular among the Bulgarians is that one about the God Dionysos - one of the gods of the Thracians that lived once on our lands. They paid him honour and believed that he had tought them to cultivate the vine to make wine. Probably the vine-grower's holiday "Trifon Zarezan" was taken from Thracians.
Through boards and exponents the exhibition shows the history of vine-growing's development from antiquity to nowadays.
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