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National Revival, 19th c.

Lamartine House

Lamartine House is a National Revival house museum in the Old Town. It belongs to the ensemble of representative houses that reveal Plovdiv's 19th-century urban culture.

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Lamartine House
Juan Antonio F. Segal, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Image license

Story of the place

How to read this place

The Lamartine House is a Revival home in the Old Town, bearing the name of the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine, who stayed in Plovdiv in 1833.

Built
≈ 1830
Lamartine
1833
Today
house-museum

A Revival home

The house was built around 1830 and is a representative example of symmetric Plovdiv Revival architecture. It is a cultural monument within the ensemble of the Old Town.

Source trail: Wikidata — Lamartine House ↗

The poet Lamartine

The home is named after the French Romantic Alphonse de Lamartine, who stayed in Plovdiv in 1833 during his “Voyage en Orient.” Today the building is a house-museum.

Source trail: Wikidata — Lamartine House ↗
Today and what to notice

Current status

Publicly documented house museum; current visiting conditions still need verification.

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Public Wikidata record

museum in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Type
museum and building
Status/protection
monument
Inception
1830
Location
Plovdiv old town
Address
ул. „Княз Церетелев“ № 19
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Traces and evidence

Current status

Publicly documented house museum; current visiting conditions still need verification.

Ownership, care and institutions

The public record used here does not identify a traceable ownership or management history. This page therefore shows only verified institutional and source links.

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Coordinates
42.14732, 24.75257 · wikidata_coordinate
Built/date
National Revival, 19th c.
Architect/builder
not identified in the current public source
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Then/now

Reference photo: Lamartine House restoration archive, 1972 — then/now Then Reference photo

Lamartine House restoration archive, 1972 — then/now

Comparison between the archive image “Lamartine House restoration archive, 1972” and a modern open-licensed image of Lamartine House.

Editorial review: This pairing of a historical image and a reference photo was automatically prepared and is shown as a provisional reference; independent editorial review of the visual match, licence and attribution information, and context is still pending.

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Then
Credit: PeterDix = Peter Dikidjiev, architect and town planner, NYCity = Media file CC BY-SA 3.0 accessed 2026-06-19
Reference photo
Credit: Juan Antonio F. Segal, Wikimedia Commons Media file CC BY 2.0 accessed 2026-06-19

Archive for this place

Lamartine House restoration archive, 1972
PeterDix = Peter Dikidjiev, architect and town planner, NYCity = · CC BY-SA 3.0

February 1972

Lamartine House restoration archive, 1972

Photograph from an archive series for Lamartine House in 1972.

Editorial review: This archive record was automatically prepared from Wikimedia Commons and is shown as a provisional reference; independent editorial review and more precise georeferencing are still pending.

Source: Wikimedia Commons — 1972Feb 150* Lamartine FFloor.jpeg ↗