... added allot to our stay.
The next day we spent in the old city, which took almost the entire day. We went to the historic museum inside the old city, which was situated in a old period house, there I learned about the Bulgarian occupation by the Turks ...
... one side of the plaza is the brick Dzhumaya mosque, dating from 1368. There is a major difference between Romania and Bulgaria in that the Romanians held off the Ottomans for centuries while the Bulgarians were simply conquered by them. Hence, Bulgarian ...
... Greek Antiquity here, including an amphitheatre (see the pics). And of course there are several churches/monasteries from several historic periods. Dennis, Nikolay, and I spent a little over an hour walking around the city's oldest part. We drove about ...
... the trip including coach and hotel stay was very cheap!!!! On this trip we visited the Bachkovo monastery, an observatory, a small historic village, stayed in a great hotel up on top of a big hill above the town of Nedelino close to the Greek ...