Fire-dancers - Ivanchov Han Hotel Constantine and Helena Bulgaria

Fire-dancers
Nestinarstvo is a dance with bare feet on the coals. According to the tradition, the fire-dancers play in the evening on St. St. Constantine and Elena (the night of 3 to 4 June in old
style). The preparation of the event begins from early dawn with “dressing” the fire-dancing icons.
At nightfall the fire is beginning to spread for the firing. It is about two meters in diameter and five to six centimeters thick. In it, the oldest practitioners of fire-dancers who first went around the stove three times, then crossed it.