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St Nikola Kapinovo Monastery

St Nikola Kapinovo Monastery

St Nikola Kapinovo Monastery (of St Nicholas) is 18 km from Elena and about 20 km from Veliko Turnovo, in a picturesque forested locality, by The monastery was founded in 1272, under the reign of Tsar ...

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St Nikola Church

St Nikola Church

In the same courtyard is also St Nikola Church (of St Nicholas), the oldest one in the The Church of St Nicholas town. It had existed in the early 16 century, and as legend has it, it had valuable chu ...

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St Iliya Plakovo Monastery

St Iliya Plakovo Monastery

St Iliya Plakovo Monastery (of St Elijah) (by the side of the village of Plakovo) is 2 - 3 km west of Kapinovo Monastery. There is no information as to precisely when it came into existence on its pre ...

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the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin

the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin

They were unified by the stone masonry of the courtyard of the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin (1837), built on the site of an old chapel. It was erected by master builder Miho from Bolert ...

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Petropavlovski Monastery

Petropavlovski Monastery

From Arbanasi, it’s a five-kilometre walk or drive northeast to the tenth-century Petropavlovski Monastery (Monastery of Peter and Paul), a foundation built on the site of a Roman fort. The monastery ...

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Dryanovski Monastery

Dryanovski Monastery

Set in a gorge beneath high crags, Dryanovski Monastery was chosen as the place from which to launch a local uprising in May 1876, while the fires of rebellion were still smouldering elsewhere after t ...

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Sveta Troitsa (Holy Trinty) convent

Sveta Troitsa (Holy Trinty) convent

More or less opposite Preobrazhenski on the other side of the valley, the Sveta Troitsa (Holy Trinty) convent (daily dawn—dusk) sits on a narrow shelf of rock, at the end of a partially asphalted road ...

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Preobrazhenski Monastery

Preobrazhenski Monastery

Four kilometres north of Turnovo, high in the crags above the main E85 road to Ruse, sits Preobrazhenski Monastery, die monastery of the Transfiguration (daily dawn-dusk). Founded in 1360 by Ivan Alek ...

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The Church of St St Peter and Paul

The Church of St St Peter and Paul

The Church of St St Peter and Paul was built around the end of the 13 or in the 14th century and an annex was added during the 16 - 17 centuries. After the town fell under Turkish rule, the Bulgarian ...

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Kilifarevo Monastery of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin

Kilifarevo Monastery of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin

Rozhdestvo Bogorodichno - Kilifarevo Monastery (of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin) and around Twenty kilometres south of Veliko Turnovo, Kilifarevo Monastery was a favourite retreat for the tsars of ...

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