Sights in District Veliko Turnovo

In village of Maryan (4km east direction from town of Elena) is located the Maryanski monastery "The Holy Transfiguration". It was built on the site of another monastery that existed during VIII - IX century. The evidences for this are 6 column capitals found there. 4 of them are kept in the...

The monastery "St.St. Petar and Pavel" (aka "Petropavlovski monastery" or "Lyaskovets monastery") is located west of town of Lyaskovets. It perches over the high and inaccessible rocks of the Arbanasi plateau. The monastery is one of the 14 monasteries built nearby t...

The Monastery St. Prophet Iliya (aka Gornoryahovski monastery) is located 2 km west of town of Gorna Oryahovitsa. For many centuries on, the monastery is keeping the Orthodox religion. Legends tell that in 1218 at this monastery died the Bulgarian tzar Boril. St. Prophet Iliya is considered as a ...

The Assumption of Virgin Mary Church (Uspenie Bogorodichno) in town of Elena was built in period 1836 - 1838 over the ruins of an old temple. The construction was performed by master Miho of the Gorni Bolerci hamlet, near Elena. It is entirely built by stone, using the material of the destroyed...

Church of St Demetrius of Thessaloniki (Sveti Dimitar Solunski) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church in the city of Veliko Tarnovo. It is situated at the northeastern foot of the Trapezitsa and Tsarevets hills, on the right bank of the Yantra River, outside the city`s medieval fortifications (in...

The Plakovski Monastery "St. Prophet Iliya" is located about 18 km south from Veliko Tarnovo, near the villages of Plakovo and Velchev , two kilometers away from Kapinovski monastery "St. Nicholas". According to the legend it was built during the Second Bulgarian State, within ...

The Svishtov monastery "Shroud of the Holy Mother" (aka "Virgin Mary’s Winding Sheet" or in Bulgarian: "Pokrov Bogorodichen") is located in a beautiful grove some 5 km away from the town of Svishtov. It was built during the Ottoman yoke and soon later was destroyed. In...

The Church of Saint Marina is located in the Centre of the town of Veliko Tarnovo, near to park "Marno поле" and the Primary school "Patriarch Evtimiy of Tarnovo". The Church was built in the XIX th century by the famous master Kolyu Ficheto. The temple was officially ina...

Preobrajenski monastery is located around 6-7 kilometers north of Veliko Turnovo, under the inaccessible sheer rocks of the west bank of the Yantra River. It was built in the middle of VIX century during the Second Bulgarian State. During the years of Ottoman Rule the monastery had been burnt down...

The monastery "St. Forty Martyrs" (aka Merdanski Monastery) is located in Turnovo heights of the Balkan Mountain, in southern part of Merdanya village, 10 km west of the town of Zlataritsa and 11 km southeast of the town of Lyaskovets. The monastery dates from the Second Bulgarian K...