Veliko Tarnovo Day Tour From Sofia & visit the fortress Tsarevets

Upon arrival, the guide will distribute audio guides and headphones to you. Therefore, you do not need to worry about having mobile internet.

The guide will accompany you throughout the entire walking tour of Veliko Tarnovo. He will raise a sign with the number of the site, and you will enter this number into the audio guide. The audio guide will share interesting and little-known facts about these places in your preferred language. You will move comfortably, enter churches and museums, which will allow you to listen to the tour from a distance instead of standing close to the guide.

Inclusions

• Transport by a modern air-conditioned bus
• English-speaking driver
• Tour coordinator
• Headphones & Audio guide device in the chosen languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Romanian, and Bulgarian.
• Audio guide for museums: "Tsarevets fortress"; Church-museum "Holy Forty Martyrs"
• Parking fee

Excluded

• Personal expenses
• Entrance ticket to Tsarevets Fortress (€7,70)
• Gratuities

Recommendations

• Since the streets in the Old town are stone cobbled we suggest that you wear comfortable shoes
• In the summer time we recommend that you use sunscreens to best protect your skin
• A seat in the minibus is guaranteed only after booking and payment

Discover Veliko Tarnovo, a city that was the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire from the 12th to the 14th century. Later, during the Ottoman conquest, it flourished as a center of trade for merchants and craftsmen, with commercial connections extending to Central Europe and North Africa.

Visit the church-mausoleum where Tsar Kaloyan, queens, and many other members of the royal family and Bulgarian aristocracy are buried.

Climb Tsarevets Hill, where you will find the remains of the castle and the church of the Bulgarian tsars. Visit the fortress, the Patriarchal Church, the Royal Palace, and Emperor Baldwin’s Tower.

Stroll along the Artisan Street, where you will have the opportunity to pass by workshops owned by Bulgarian families for generations, preserving ancient traditions. Take the chance to see a fully functional copper workshop, as well as a pottery workshop where you can observe the preserved technique of creating royal sgraffito ceramics from the 12th–14th centuries.

101 VELIKO TARNOVO – medieval capital
1. The Church of Saints Peter and Paul
2. Church of St. Ivan of Rila
3. Shishman's Bath
4. Church of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki
5. Vladishki Bridge
6. Temple of the Forty Holy Martyrs
7. Sound and Light Show

8. Tsarevets fortress + Visit to the temple
8.1 Tarnovgrad - general description from "Tsar Asen I" square
8.2. Assenova Gate and the inn
8.3. Postern gate in the western fortress wall
8.4. Houses and shops
8.5. Lobnata skala and the adjacent monastery. Trapezitsa
8.6. The Palace Complex
8.7. Patriarchal Cathedral St. The Ascension Of God
8.8. Baldwin's Tower

9. Museum of the Bulgarian Revival and the Constituent Assembly."
10. The ancient houses of Turnovo
11 Samovodska charshia - shopping street
12. The house with the Monkey
13. The panoramic viewing terrace
14. Monument of Assenevtsi
15. Stambolov Bridge, Yantra River
16. The Art Gallery