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Kazanlak, Rose Valley (Rozovata Dolina)

Kazanlak is in the Valley of Roses, Rozovata Dolina, in central Bulgaria, where the damask rose is grown at elevations between 370 and 625 m. Picking begins in May and runs for 20 to 30 days, from 5 or 6 in the morning until 11 or 12.

The Bulgarian rose oil made here is a protected name in the EU register; the picking window and the elevations above are its own words. The point on the map is a representative point for the town from Wikidata, not a field, and the clock beside it is local time: a fact, not a claim about the harvest.

Read the essay · The harvest globe · The map

The record

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Place
Kazanlak, Rose Valley (Rozovata Dolina)
documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

the place name as the harvest globe’s data spells it; the Wikidata item is Q192926 Kazanlak

confidence A

Region
the Valley of Roses (Rozovata Dolina), Central Bulgaria, at elevations between 370 and 625 m
documented · 2014

The Damask rose is traditionally grown in the Valley of Roses (Rozovata Dolina) in Central Bulgaria at elevations between 370 and 625 m.

HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Country
Bulgaria
documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Coordinates
42.61875, 25.39324 (a representative point for the town (Wikidata P625), not a field)
documented

Wikidata Q192926 (Kazanlak) P625

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Time zone
Europe/Sofia
documented

BG +4241+02319 Europe/Sofia

TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); pu · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Traditions
not on record
not on record

HV-1 has a traditions section (the Rose Festival, the picking customs) that the house’s review did not quote; nothing is filed until a sentence is quoted

Harvest, as a source states it
  • Rosa damascena Mill.: Picking starts in May and lasts 20–30 days · from 5–6 a.m. to about noon
    documented · HV-1

    June is derived: the document says the season starts in May and runs 20–25 (section 3.5) or 20–30 days (section 5.2); the "text" is the page’s corrected wording (register row 1452 and 2310)

    confidence A

Grows here
Harvest and processing here
  • picking of the rose blossom (harvest): by hand: only blossoms with at least one open petal are picked, with the sepals, without damaging the stem or the branches
    documented

    The harvest takes place over a 20 to 30-day period and requires special skills: between several hours before daybreak and the early morning only blossoms with at least one open petal are picked with the sepals, without damaging the stem or the branches.

    HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 · read 2026-09-27

    the EU register’s single document for the PGI “Bulgarsko rozovo maslo”

    confidence A

    ; when: from 5–6 a.m. until 11–12 noon
    documented

    The picking of rose blossom begins at 5-6 a.m. and continues until 11-12 noon.

    HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 · read 2026-09-27

    the season (May, 20–30 days) is on the Origin record kazanlak-bg (harvest_windows)

    confidence A

    record

Films and plates

  • MAT-1 · the rose field: the /materials masthead film · film
    the rose (its bloom only): Lassi Kaukonen, "Red rose", CC BY 4.0, credited on /credits
  • S5 · the rose dive: from the field into one bloom, down to one molecule · film
    the rose (its bloom only): Lassi Kaukonen, "Red rose", CC BY 4.0, credited on /credits

Claims register

Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.

  • softened · Picking starts in May and lasts 20–30 days · from 5–6 a.m. to about noon (was: Harvest · May · 4am–8am Only)
    documented · register row 1452

    HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 · read 2026-09-27

    corrected 2026-09-27 to the PGI’s window ("begins at 5-6 a.m. and continues until 11-12 noon"); the register’s status column carries the correction

    where the site says it: /materials, “Rosa damascena”

    confidence A

  • verified · The Rosa damascena is picked for twenty to thirty days from May in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria (was: The Rosa damascena blooms for precisely three weeks each May in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria)
    documented · register row 2303

    HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 · read 2026-09-27

    the house’s review 2026-09-27: sourced to HV-1 ("a 20 to 30-day period", "usually begins in May")

    where the site says it: /materials, “The Precious Materials”

    confidence A

  • softened · Picking starts in the early morning and ends around noon, before the heat of the day. It takes an enormous weight of hand-picked petals to make a single kilogram of rose oil. (was: Harvest begins before sunrise — the flowers must be picked before the heat of day begins to volatilize the delicate esters that define rose’s character. One kilogram of rose otto requires roughly four tons of hand-picked petals.)
    documented · register row 2304

    HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 · read 2026-09-27

    the picking window is HV-1’s; the four-tonne yield had no source and was softened to a non-numeric sentence (which still has no source: "an enormous weight" is an interpretation)

    where the site says it: /materials, “Jasminum grandiflorum”

    confidence B

  • verified · Picking season: 20–30 days from May (PGI) (was: Bloom season: 3 weeks in May)
    documented · register row 2310

    HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 · read 2026-09-27

    the house’s review 2026-09-27: sourced to HV-1

    where the site says it: /materials, “Rosa damascena”

    confidence A

Sources

  1. HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 (‘Българско розово масло’ (Bulgarsko rozovo maslo), PGI), Official Journal of the European Union C 122, 25.4.2014, p. 12 (2014/C 122/05), CELEX 52014XC0425(02). Registered by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1020/2014. eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri… · read 2026-09-27
  2. GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia article of each place; wbgetentities API, read 2026-09-27. Values rounded to 5 decimals by the fetch script; representative points (city, region or country centroid), not field locations. www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&… · read 2026-09-27 · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata data licence)
  3. TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); public domain. data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/zone.tab · read 2026-09-27 · public domain

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this record as data: /data/origin/kazanlak-bg.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A