Nikola Vaptsarov was born in this house in 1909, grew up to become one of Bulgaria's most-loved twentieth-century poets, joined the Communist resistance during the Second World War, and was executed by firing squad in Sofia in 1942 at the age of thirty-two. His birthplace is now a small museum dedicated to his life and work.
The downstairs is set up as the family home would have been; the upstairs gallery covers his poetry, his political life and his death. Most of the labelling is in Bulgarian and Russian, but a few panels are translated and a printed English guide is available at the entrance. Twenty minutes is enough.