JEWISH TOMBSTONES

The Jewish tombstones now exibited by Stara Zagora's municipal swimming pool date back to the 18th and 19th centuries. They were "rescued" by the local museum from the town's old Jewish cemetery (located by the railway line, off Slavyanski Boulevard), when it was partly demolished in the 1950s to make room for an industrial compound. Though some of the tombstones have been vandalised with spray paint, they are the "lucky" ones: many more were just destroyed without a trace.