Cultura Trimona

What sets daily sketches and urban folklore distinctly apart is the amount of truth credited to one versus the other. For example, hearsay coverage is generally considered popular through circulation via emails, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social networks. Tales are repeated often enough to develop a life of their own order however folklore is regarded with more respect as moral from the past.

Personal memories, social customs, weekly rumours and street life habits beside formal history and traditions are what make up the so-called cultura trimona.

The Plovdiv folklore consists of cross-fertilized footprints from Thrace and Macedonia in addition to traditions that are indigenous to the Seven Hills area. Spirits of poets, singers, rebels and visionaries are deeply inculcated through the ages. Even though, urban folklore in such cases also includes superstitions as stumbling on right foot claims a good fortune for any Plovdiv gambler. Therefore became part of the local mythology and presented a mindset.

The Plovdiv’s urban order is a contemporary invention that involves however more cultivated customs and manners. Arguably, cultura trimona may be considered as a subculture of one Plovdivian national establishment since its daily agenda deals with current citywide events, beliefs and even myths that are perpetuated through oral tradition, social relevance and communities of interests.

Plovdiv urban order imparts moral, attitude, apprehensions generally. At particularly daily base it sets warnings about the controversy of city life, of trusting acquaintances and strangers as well as of being aware of cornerstones in society. Plovdivers tend to believe what personality may take from this order strongly depends on its background and in other words for how long it has known the city. A question of building oneself as embedding into the city storyline. A question of being with its emotions, labour, concerns, suspicions, and prejudices.

Cultura trimona is Plovdiv’s narrative of life confined between here-and-now: dazzle, humorous, or cautionary. Tales told by common domains, which citizens often accept to the letter, even if their plots are just barely believable - Sofia always tries to diminish Plovdiv while other Bulgarians are nerds and wannabees who are starving of living as Plovdivers.

One may encounter this narrative everywhere he finds a true Plovdivian - a little flamboyant, a little vulgar, partially sceptic and enough perky. It is also reinterpreted at their work, at their amusements, garment styles they prefer and even what weather they admire. Influenced by its heritage the cultura trimona lasts vividly.

Nevertheless it still looks forward to seeing its brightest side which always remains ahead naturally. Still constructing, still engineering, planning and hesitating. Inevitably.