Route route is Veliko Tarnovo – Semsevo – Kereka – Dreanovo – Dryanovo Monastery

It is a relaxing 1-day route for beginners, families with children, and people with disabilities.

They leave Veliko Tarnovo from the Petleto bar area, cross the western industrial area and leave the town heading to the village of Shamshevo. Prior to entering this village we will cross the Yantra River. From Şemşevo we take it down to the south and keep the main road that leads us through the village of Kereka.

From here we continue our journey further south until we leave the 303 road and enter 609 that leads us eastwards to the city of Dranovo.

We will enter E85 and start south again to Tsinga, where we have about the finishing of the trail, the Dryanovo Monastery.

From here we will be taken over by the organizing team to return to Veliko Tarnovo.

The Dryanovo Monastery „Saint Archangel Michael” is situated in the picturesque gorge of the Dryanovo River, 4 km away from the town of Dryanovo, 14 km away from Gabrovo and 24 km away from the historic town of Veliko Tarnovo.

The Dryanovo Monastery was established at the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century and was originally located approximately 2 km from the monastery’s current complex.

The monastery was one of Hesychasm’s main centers and used as the shelter of many monks in the fourteenth century.

The holy monastery was destroyed by invading Ottoman troops at the end of the 14th century. Later, it was rebuilt in a new place in the area, and popularly known as the „Great Archangel”. Unfortunately, the second monastery divided the cruel fate of the first.

The Dryanovo Monastery was built at the end of the 17th century where it can be visited today. In fact, at that time a church and a small chapel „Assumption of the Virgin Mary” were also built. In addition, a school operated at the same time.

The history of the Dryanovo monastery is closely linked to the struggles of the Bulgarian nation for liberation.

The church of St. Dimitrios of Thessaloniki (Sveti Dimitar Solunski) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church in the town of Veliko Tarnovo. It is situated at the foot of the northeast of the Trapezitsa and Tsarevets hills, on the right bank of the Yantra River, outside the city’s medieval fortifications (at the borders of the Asenov quarter of the town of Veliko Tarnovo today). In the past, the church was part of a large monastery.

The church was destroyed several times (in the 13th century in the nineteenth century), but it was restored again. The last reconstruction is from 1977-1985 and the foundation is the architectural remains available and the example of the Bulgarian churches of the same period that have been better preserved.

The Prison Museum in Veliko Tarnovo is located in Saedinenie Square, near the Bulgarian Renaissance Museum and the Constituent Assembly and the Museum of Contemporary History.

The museum building dates from the 19th century and was used as a prison until 1954.

The construction is made of stone and has a ground floor, two upper floors, two inner courtyards surrounded by tall walls and a few service buildings.

The museum’s exhibition is on the ground floor and on the 1st floor and reproduces the true atmosphere of the prison cell with restored cells, where many famous revolutionaries have been imprisoned and tortured.

Instruments of torture are also displayed.

The archaeological museum in Veliko Tarnovo hosts the exhibition „Veliko Tarnovo – the capital of Bulgaria between the 12th and 14th centuries”, where the history and culture of the Ternovo region are exhibited, but the emphasis was placed during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom .

The exhibition was created on 16 November 1985 and related to the 800th anniversary of Assen and Peter’s revolt.

The address of the Archeological Museum Veliko Tarnovo is Str. Ivanka Boteva no. 2, Veliko Tarnovo.

The show „Tsarevgrad Turnov – Sound and Light” is a fascinating audiovisual show on a summer evening in the town of Veliko Tarnovo. Viewed from the entrance to the city, the buildings and walls of the Tsarevets castle are bathed in vibrant colors, and the color changes are accompanied by music. Three lasers, multicolored lights, dramatic music and church bells are used to tell the story of the fall of Tarnovo under Ottoman domination, as well as other key moments in Bulgarian history.

The whole show takes about 20 minutes. It has been organized in Tsarevets since 1985, when it celebrated the 800th anniversary of Asen’s and Peter’s uprising. It was designed and planned by a mixed Bulgarian-Czechoslovak team led by Valo Radev and Jaromir Hnik.

The Baldwin Tower is located in the Tsarevets Architecture Museum in the town of Veliko Tarnovo. The name of the Baldwin Tower is associated with the legend, according to which there was the death and death of the Latin king Baldwin (Baudouin) of Flanders, captured by Tsar Kaloyan after the Battle of Adrianople in 1205.

The Baldwin Tower rises in the south-eastern part of the Tsarevets fortress in Veliko Tarnovo, close to the Frenkhisarska Gate. The complex has a connection with the only water source outside the city walls. Near the entrance, the medieval tower guarded the water tanks. Next to the tower is the southern ladder that descends into a filter pit. The ladder had a width of 1.75 m and was closed between two parallel walls.

The modern tower that was visited today was rebuilt in 1933 after the design of the architect Alexander Rashenov, preserving the resemblance to the preserved tower near the town of Ruse in the Cherven Fortress.

Address: Stadium Square, Dryanovo 5370

Telephone: +359 67 672 245

Address: Stefan Stambolov 36, 5370 Dryanovo

Telephone: +359 88 247 6091

Address: ul. „Sava Penchev” 1, 5000 Veliko Tarnovo Center, Veliko Tarnovo

Telephone: +359 62 615 555

Address: ul. „Sava Penchev” 1, 5000 Veliko Tarnovo Center, Veliko Tarnovo

Telephone: +359 62 615 555

Address: 2 Rafael Mihailov, „Rafael Mihaylov” 2, 5000 Veliko Tarnovo Center

Telephone: +359 88 280 9000

The „Danube On 2 Wheels” Project is co-financed by the European Union though the European Regional Development Fund, within the INTERREG V-A Romania – Bulgaria Programme.
The total eligible value of the project is EUR 497.713,26, of which EUR 423.056,25 represents the value of the European Union contribution through the European Regional Development Fund.

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Route Veliko – Tarnovo – Dryanovo Monastery

Touristic objectives in area

Dreanovo Monastery

St. Demetrius Church of Thessaloniki, Veliko Tarnovo

Prison Museum, Veliko Tarnovo

Archaeological Museum, Veliko Tarnovo

Audio-Visual Spectacle of Sound and Light, Veliko Tarnovo

The Baldwin Tower, Veliko Tarnovo

Park Hotel, Dryanovo

Pizza Neapoletana

Premier Hotel

PREMIER Restaurant, Veliko Tarnovo

Play Hotel

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Level – Beginners
Total vertical climb – 500 m
Duration – 1 day
Distance – 38 km
Surface – paved
Bicycle type – cursor

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