Veliko Tarnovo day tours from Sofia

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 guide-driver
• 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"; Museum "Prison"
• Parking fee

Excluded

• Food & Drinks
• Entry tickets (for three museums 15 euros)
• 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.

0. History of the city of Veliko Tarnovo
1. Church St. Peter and Paul
2. "Shishman's bath"
3. "Vladishki bridge"the XVII century
4. Church-Mausoleum "Holy Forty Martyrs" + Visit to the temple. Inside we talk about the temple. In the church are buried King Kaloyan, Queens Anna Maria and Irina, Saint Sava of Serbia, as well as many other members of the royal family and the Bulgarian aristocracy.
5. Tsarevets fortress + Visit to the temple. Inside we talk about the temple
6. Patriarchal Cathedral St. The Ascension Of God - Visit to the temple. Inside we talk about the temple
7. Trapezitsa Hill
8. Museum of the Bulgarian Revival and Constituent Assembly
9. Museum "Prison" + Visit to the temple. Inside we talk about the templ
10. Nativity of the Theotokos Cathedral
11. “General Gurko” Street - the central street of the Old Town
12. The ancient houses of Turnovo
13. "Panoramic site"
14. Monument of Assenevtsi
15. Stambolov bridge
16. The monument to the hanged
17. Samovodska charshia - architectural and ethnographic complex
18. The house "Han Hadji Nikoli"
19. The house with the monkey
20. Monument "Mother Bulgaria"