Culture and Heritage
Monasteries and Churches
Many monasteries and churches were built during the time of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom in Veliko Turnovo and the region, and they became the centre of an intense spiritual and cultural life. It was because of them that we protected and kept our language, religion, culture and traditions during the difficult days throughout history. It was in their libraries that all the volumes of the old Bulgarian books were kept and re-written. They are the real witnesses and guardians of the history.
Preobrazhenski Monastery
Preobrazhenski Monastery is the biggest of the monasteries around Veliko Turnovo and the fourth largest in the country. It lies at a distance of 7 km from Veliko Turnovo in the wooded gorge of Derventa, below the caves in the cliffs which surround the Belyakovo Plateau.
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The Holy Trinity Monastery
This monastery lies 6 km to the north of Veliko Turnovo.
According to certain data the Monastery of the Holy Trinity was founded in 1070 by Georgi, a churchwarden and his son, Kalin, but it is thought more probable that it was built by Patriarch Euthymius with the help of Tsar Ivan Shishman, hence its name of Patriarchal.
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Kilifarevo Monastery
The emergence of the Kilifarevo Monastery is closely connected with the name of Theodossius of Turnovo, an acknowledged Bulgarian Hesychast and man of letters. He settled in these parts towards 1348, a few years after the death of the famous Hesychast Gregory Sinait, whose monastery in Southern Strandzha he had inhabited before.
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Petropavlovski Monastery
The Monastery of SS. Peter and Paul (known as Petropavlovski) is located 9km away from Veliko Turnovo, near the town of Lyaskovets. It is thought to have been first built in the first half of the 10th century. It was also known as Boyanovo Monastery, which led to the supposition that it was founded by Boyan the Magus, son of Tsar Symeon.
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The Kapinovo Monastery of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker
An inscription on the eastern facade, above the apse of the Kapinovo Monastery's cathedral church reads thus: "And first was there raised in the year 1272 a temple named the Holy Trinity, renovated in 1835." This text clearly and definitely states that until 1835, on the site of the present-day cathedral church, there stood an older temple dated, according to an inscription non-existing today, to 1272 when Tsar Constantine Assen-Tikh (1257-1277) ruled.
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The Arbanassi Monastery of St. Nicholas
The Monastery of St. Nicolas lies in a small dale at the south-western end of Arbanassi. It is thought to have been founded by the family of the Assens.
The monastery keeps one of the very few preserved Royal appartments in Bulgaria with original belongings of the Royal family.
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Convent of The Dormition of The Virgin
The Arbanassi Convent of the Dormition of the Virgin is situated in the north-western part of the village. It was also probably first built in the Middle Ages because of its proximity to an old fort and a Roman road.
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Plakovo Monastery of St Elijah
As the legend has it, the Plakovo Monastery of St Elijah was founded with the assistance of Tsar Ivan II Assen. Initially, it was situated in the Baluklii locality of the Elena Mountains, south of the present-day cloister. During the early decades of this century there still existed an old time small church. The monastery was shifted to its present-day site in the latter half of the 13 th century.
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The Monastery of The Holy Forty Martyrs
The Monastery of The Holy Forty Martyrs near the village of Merdanya stood within the boundaries of a nearby fort, connected with the victory of Tsar Ivan Assen II over the Byzantines at Klokotnitsa in 1230. ... more
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