We set out before it got bright around 6 am, I saw the first sunrise in Bulgaria and it was crazy beautiful.
We stopped in a gas station and bought two Cappucino and olive banitsa.
Vladishki Bridge – Vladishki most (Владишки мост)
Residential buildings existed on the foothills of the fortresses, where the numerous citizens of the capital lived. A bridge connected the two shores of the river. They called it Vladishki or Bishop’s bridge.Most of the lovers hanging their lock to the fence of the bridge
St. Peter and St. Paul Church
You can see Ottoman Empire effect in everywhere.
Holy Forty Martyrs Church
Samovodskata Charshya
The picturesque street is nice to walk down you can feel like you are not in Bulgaria.
This city is one of the oldest towns in Bulgaria so you can feel deep, good vibe like you are in Italia or Greece.
In this street you can find workshops where people make wood carvings, knives, art, and other traditional pieces, souvenir shops.
I took this cat wood carving to 20 leva. I am so into this kind of wood or stone shaping , paintings.We walked and bought some souvenirs now we are going Tsarevets which is the best places to see in Veliko.You can see this bronze “cezve” and necklace ! Yeah bulgarian people use cezve too ! And they are using the same word in bulgarian , cezve.Arbanasi is a little village is far from 1 hour to veliko its kinda picturesque place but we are not gonna go there .We also bought some shot glasses for rakia ! This is the glasses we bought from veliko !This church is neglected so people collecting money for maintenance. In front of the church there are couple tombs.Ivo try to understand for to tell me what is writing in the tombsRegional Public Library Petko Slaveykov ,today this is the biggest library in Central North Bulgaria which offers services combining the traditions and the modern technologies.Museum “Revival and Constituent Assembly”, in the building of the old Turkish konak (police office in the Ottoman Empire). The Nativity of the Theotokos Cathedral, this cathedral architecture looks like Alexander nevsky and Sveta Nedelya .
The Nativity of the Theotokos Cathedral
Tsarevets fortress
The first place you should visit in Veliko Tarnovo is the Tsarevets fortress.Tsarevets Fortress was like this before . There is not much architecture left shows Bulgaria past glory in the Middle Ages, and this is Tsarevets – the stronghold of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (12th – 14th century).During the Ottoman rule times, Bulgarians were chased away from Tsarevets and Turks occupied the area within the fortification walls. Mosques were built and the hill became a Turkish neighbourhood. Gradually, the city of Tarnovo started looking more like the way it looks today.
The ticket office is located near the main entrance to the fortress.
Entrance costs 6 lev per person and there are plenty of different trails to take to the top.
There is a long and different ways to go to top and the road made up from cobblestone pavement i was wearing high heels but they are kinda comfortable for me but you can take your sneakers and water with you .
There are no place sell water inside of the fortress so you should take this kind of stuff with you.
We were so lucky about weather, we are in February but weather was like summer everyone was wearing tshirt we tie our coat to our waist or bags.
The Patriarchal Church “Ascension of Christ”Nowadays the temple is with a museum statute and is not using as a church. The walls are not painted according to the canon. Modernist murals in the Church of the Ascension. Inside the church you can see this gift machine it works with 2 leva. You have three option for your medallion face after you choose one, put 2 leva inside the place and turn the handle as much as you can . Then you gift is ready ! I dont know why I love this touristical stuff it is kinda felts you like you have a connection with that place because you are preparing your own present . This idea is very touristical ! Ivo put it for me and tell me the turn the handle and I love it. When you go out from the church you can see two telescope for check the view closely we already saw it generally so we did not do it.You can see upon the building which year they made it and they will survive .In turkish and bulgarian they have one common word to i have found out it is “dükkan”. In the road of Samovodska charshya you can see two places which works to watch to scenery when you watch it you can eat something bar tables in border on the fences. We enjoyed the view like 10 minutes here we ate waffles but bulgarian style wafer.We were starving so found this place , I am in Bulgaria but still eating doner . You can find as a street food pizza slices or some banitsa . We decided to eat Albox classic from Aladdin doner . Neighborhood prefers this places so we decided to eat from here . After we took away our food we go to Monument to the Assen Dynasty . “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo
Stambolov Bridge – Istanbul
This places kinda center of the city but you can see hole nature and Virgin land. Veliko Tarnovo still has that historical nature vibe .
Monument to the Assen Dynasty
We ate our dinner with this view !
Sveta Gora Park
Gurko Street
You can see this street name is related with Turks and Ottoman Empire again ..And in 5pm we take our car from parking lot and driving our road to sofia ! That was my one of the best days in Bulgaria ! And we had a charming sunset ….
Veliko Tarnovo is the most beautiful city in Bulgaria as far as I have seen .
Melis 