Sights in District Veliko Turnovo

The Ethnographic complex Osenarska reka is located on the banks of Osenarska river, nearby the small hamlet of Gartsite, 2km  south of Voneshta Voda village and about 40 km south of Veliko Tarnovo.There can be seen traditional for this region of Bulgaria house and a water mill....

Holy Trinity Church ("Sveta Troitsa") in the town of Svishtov is the last church built by the great Bulgarian builder during the Renaissance - master Nikola Ficheto. It was built in XIX century in the period 1865 - 1867 year for two years and four months and is one of the most remarkable...

House-museum Filip Totyu is located in neighbourhood  of Gyrtcite near (2km south-east direction) village of Voneshta Voda.Philip Totyo (real name Todor Todorov Stanchev) was born here on April 10th 1830. It is great Bulgarian revolutionary leader who fought against the Ottoman oppressors....

The church "St. Dimitar" in the village of Pravda (Veliko Turnovo region) is located in the central part of the village. It is unique because is built only of stones without usage of cement. Other features of this church are the two beautiful icons, work of the artist Nikolai Kolev, which ...

Monument of the Asenevtsi kings (aka "The riders")in Veliko Tarnovo was founded in 1985 in occasion of national celebrations of 800 years of the uprising of the brothers Asen and Peter and the proclamation of Tarnovo as the capital of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (1185 - 1393). The monument is...

Holy Forty Martyrs church ("Sv. Chetirideset machenitsi") in Veliko Tarnovo is a medieval Eastern Orthodox church. It was built in 1230.The church is an elongated six-columned basilica and  has three semicircular apses and a narrow narthex from the west. Another building was added later t...

The monument of "Mother Bulgaria" is one of the most emblematic places in the city of Veliko Tarnovo. It is located between two of the major streets in the central part - "Independence" str. and "Vasil Levski" str. The monument is dedicated to the Bulgarians killed in ...

"Stambolov bridge" in Veliko Turnovo is built over the Yantra River and is named after the prominent Bulgarian statesman Stefan Stambolov, which is one of the initiators of its construction. The bridge is leading to the river-peninsula Boruna, where the monument of the Assens, "Boris...

In the center of Yantra village (municipality of Gorna Oryahovitsa) was built a soldier monument, in memory of all village residents who died in wars for Bulgaria.The monument is located in the park area, front of the community center. It is built of white stone on which is mounted a marble ...

The City Art Gallery of Veliko Tarnovo was housed in a building from 1928 (an Art school) which is situated on a Boruna peninsula. During the long period of its existence the building has owned also by the "Animal - epidemiological institute" and the Militsa (Police). In 80s of XX century,...