VELIKO TURNOVO

Once you have visited Veliko Tarnovo you will never want to go elsewhere. Veliko Tarnovo is a very old indeed and is one of the most ancient Bulgarian towns. The city is rich for its amazingly beautiful panorama as well as for its interesting cultural and historical past. You will be amazed by thetremendous beauty and splendour of the town.

Veliko Tarnovo is a place under the Sun where the future meets up with the past and they work together as a team to build up the present. As the town is linked with the past there are lots of remarkable architectural monuments. The adoption of the first Bulgarian constitution in 1814 and the second Bulgarian Kingdom's apogee in the 12th and 13th centuries AD all took placehere and that's why it is so popular and its history is known by everybody and for the very same reason the town is very important to the Bulgarians. During the 15th-19th centuries Tarnovo was a leading centre of the struggle for cultural independence as well as a stronghold of the Bulgarian national spirit.

Once the town used to be an important administrative trade and industrial centre especially after the liberation from ottoman domination in 1877 until the cruel wars in 1912-1913 and 1915-1918. Tarnovoplayed a significant role in the political administrative and cultural formation of independent Bulgaria. The 1st, the 3rd, the 4th and the 5th Grand National Assemblies were all held in Veliko Tarnovo and it happened in 1879, 1887 and 1911. Nowadays all travellers describe Veliko Tarnovo as the most beautiful town in Bulgaria and they have a reason for saying so, as the town has it all in one.