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Day 6, Veliko Tarnovo, Dryanovski Monastery, Etara, Koprivshtitsa

6-th day, Discover Bulgaria

Day 6, Dryanovski Monastery-Etara-Koprivshtitsa

  • Breakfast.
  • Visit of Tsarevets

Tsarevetz - The old city is situated on three hills, Tsarevets, Trapezitsa and Sveta Gora raising amidst the meanders of the Yantra. Tsarevets housed the palaces of the Bulgarian Emperors and the Patriarchate, as well as a number of administrative and residential edifices surrounded by thick walls. In the Middle Ages it was among the main European centres of culture and gave its name to the Tarnovo Artistic School of architecture, painting and literature.The inaccessible hill of Tsarevets was the best place where the supreme power of the Bulgarian tsars could be established second town in words and acts after Constantinople”.

  • Continuation for Dryanovski Monastery on the way to Etara.

 Dryanovski Monastery – it was founded in the time of the Second Bulgarian state. During Ottoman rule it was destroyed and sacked twice. It was built at its present location in 1845. It was a stronghold and shelter for Bulgarian revolutionaries. During the April Revolt fights took place in it. There is a mausoleum-monument in the monastery yard in honour of the ones who died in that revolt.  

  • Departure to Etara Ethnographic complex.