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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
