Albanian dialect. The village has well-preserved three-storey adobe and brick houses which represent the Thracian style featuring wood-carved ceilings, wrought iron balconies and columns. Mandritsa has two churches: the small single-naved cemetery church of St Nedelya built in 1708, which is one of the oldest churches in the Eastern Rhodopes, and the three-naved village church of St Demetrius constructed in 1835, which is partially destroyed, but planned to be reconstructed. As of 2016, Mandritsa has a newly built small hotel with a bar and a restaurant. The hotel bears the name Bukor shtepi, Albanian for "beautiful house". Language Footnotes References Memories from Mandritsa(in Spanish)-Memorias de un inmigrante griego llamado Theodoro Pappatheodorou por Guadalupe García Torres External links Mandritsa.com - information site from "Association for revival of the village of Mandritsa" Photo gallery from the summer of 2004 Villages in Haskovo Province Populated places established in 1636 Albania–Bulgaria relations Albanians in Bulgaria 1636 establishments in the Ottoman Empire Albanian dialects