10 March 2014, 01:50
Nagorno-Karabakh hosts first festival of bread baked under national tradition
For the first time, the village of Khantsk of the Askeran District of Nagorno-Karabakh hosted the festival of Karabakh bread baked in tonir (a deep circular pit with walls lined with stones). The festival was attended by about 300 guests, including tourists from Denmark and Belgium, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
The celebration was held on March 8. The community of Khantsk is the only village in the region, where almost all families continue to bake bread under Karabakh traditions and do not buy it in the stores. This was told by organizers of the festival, officials from the Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh.
One of the main conditions of the festival provided that the bread and all the dishes were to be prepared exclusively from products grown by Khantsk residents themselves. All participants received valuable gifts.
According to Zoriy Arutyunyan, the head of the village administration, the villagers are mainly engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding.
Sergey Shakhverdyan, the head of the department for tourism and conservation of the historic environment at the government of Nagorno-Karabakh, has noticed that the festival will explore the potential of the village of Khantsk, and after that, the government will consider the village as a place of interest for tourists.
Author: Alvard Grigoryan Source: CK correspondent
