The Balabanov house has been built in the early XIX century by Haji Panayot Lampsha - rich merchant and money-lender.
In the early XX century, it houses its last owner, the merchant Luka Balabanov, whose name it is now known with.
The Balabanov House had the unfortunate fate to be razed to the ground in 30-es of XX century. In 1971, 45 years later, the full reconstruction of this destroyed Plovdiv landmark was planned to be done on the exact place where it existed before.
The real size of the house is impressive - it takes 546 sq.km area and 4723 cubic metres cubage. The Balabanov House is Revival building with symmetrical plan of the house on the second floor.
The revived house is opened as a museum, which presents city customs form the last age, as a gallery of arts presenting the collection of "Ancient Plovdiv" Municipal Institute, as a concert hall, preferred by a number of eminent musicians, and as a place for gatherings of the union of artists and intellectuals. |
