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Remains of a Thracian fortress (on Kamuka Hill)

Remains of a Thracian fortress (on Kamuka Hill)

Remains of a Thracian fortress (on Kamuka Hill) can be seen south of Rahovets. The fortress wall is 350 m long, and in its centre there are remains of a Thracian sanctuarya 2 m square cut into the roc ...

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The fortress Rahovets

The fortress Rahovets

Remains of medieval Rahovets (Ryahovets) can be seen 3.5 km west of the town. The fortress had the form of a trapez and had been skillfully combined with the inaccessible rocks in the region. There we ...

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Old Postcard Mount Athos

Old Postcard Mount Athos

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Sveta Gora Hill

Sveta Gora Hill

Sveta Gora Hill, Hill with Veliko Turnovo University and the Monument to Patriarch Euthymius Turnovgrad capital) rises south of Tsarevets. It is so called in anology with Sveta Gora (Mount Athos). Num ...

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The fortress on Trapezitsa Hill

The fortress on Trapezitsa Hill

The fortress on Trapezitsa Hill had been second in importance after the one on Tsarevets Hill. During the 12 - 14 centuries it had been called 'the glorious town of Trapezitsa1. Fortified by strong fo ...

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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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Tsarevets

Tsarevets

Approaching Tsarevets, along the stone causeway that was erected after the original drawbridge collapsed beneath the bey’s harem, you can appreciate how the boyars Petur and Asen were emboldened enoug ...

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