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Kyustendil  is a town with millenium tradition and history. Its healing mineral water springs offer great conditions for cure and rest. It is rich of sights date back to Antiquity up to our days-Ancient Roman therms, Hisarluka Fortress, Pirgova Tower, the mosques "Fatih Mehmed" and "Ahmed bey". 20 km. aside is the Osogovo mountain area "Tri buki" with a hotel, sport and ski base.

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House-museum exposition shows arrangement of a town-style home of that part of the Kyustendil intelligentsia who were better off: a large impressive hall furnished with Renaissance furniture and used for meeting guests; a bedroom; a kitchen with a dining room and a small hall used for afternoon visiting. In two of the rooms where the staff of the Russian detachment  was housed, headed by major-general Maiendorf, colonel Ertel, lieutenant-colonel Zadernovski, the furniture is imported represented the style of the 30s of the 20th century. During his stay in Kyustendil colonel Victor Ivanovich Ertel was housing the northeastern room, known as "Ertel office". In the living room there is a chimney-piece, called "djamal" heating also the small hall for guests. On the fireplace in the kitchen are exposed authentic vessels worked out by Christo Kazandjiata -cauldron, a water can, а Turkish coffee-pot and a mortar with pestle.    

Emfiedjiev house is an architectural monument from the Renaissance period. It was built in 1874 and belonged to Christo Lazov-Kazandjiata, a first master of Kyustendil guild and an outstanding champion of the Bulgarian church society in the town. It is situated in the center of the old Kyustendil quarter "Lozenets" (Baglak), inhabited with better-off Bulgarians-patriots. After it was restored by architect Basil Slokoski`s project it has been adapted as museum where exposition "Town way of living and culture of Kyustendil population from the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th c." has been arranged. The house has its historic significance for the town. In two of the rooms which housed the staff of the IV Ulanian Harkov regiment, who liberated Kyustendil on January 30, 1878 from the Ottomans, the expositions represent working atmosphere of its heads. The architectural ensemble of the Emfiedjiev house has П-formed plan in two parts-dwelling and farming ones which have respectively yards surrounded by a huge stone walls. The building is with one story with semi-dug cellars. The dwelling part is a symmetric Renaissance house in Plovdiv style.