Fodor's Expert Review Konstantsalieva House

You can tell the wealth of the former owner of this 17-century home by its most exclusive feature: an indoor toilet. True, it's less 'porcelain throne' and more 'hole in the ground,' but it was a luxury when the house was built. Today a museum and tiny ethnographic gallery, this two-story house—with a stone lower half and timber on the upper floor—surrounded by a stone fence, is typical of Arbanasi. Walking through the house, particularly the kitchen with period cookware, it's possible to imagine what it life would have been like for a wealthy merchant family in 17th-century Arbanasi.