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Koprivstitsa sits in a high valley of the Sredna Gora mountains, stretching along both sides of Topolka River. This is an authentic Bulgarian Renaissance town. Here in Koprivshtitsa, the thread of tradition and glorious past remains unbroken. The town boasts an impressive 388 architectural monuments from the period of the renaissance (15 of national significance) and six museums. Declared a museum-town in 1952, Koprivshtitsa was added as a historical preserve in 1971 and was recognized as a national architectural preserve of international standing in 1978. More than 380 of the town's houses date from the National Revival era, the most elaborate from 1842 to 1870, when the symmetrical Plovdiv style took hold.