Veliko Tarnovo | Велико Търново

[nilix]

дата : 19 септември 2007 г. 16:29 ч

Мощите на петимата български държавници кан Кубрат/632-660 г./, кан Аспарух /660-701 г./, цар Ивайло /1277-1280 г./, Михаил Шишман /1323-1330 г./ и цар Георги Тертер /1280-1292 г./ ще почиват в църквата "Св.40 мъченици" във Велико Търново, съобщиха от НИМ.

При препогребването на цар Калоян в църквата "Св. 40 мъченици" - филиал на Националния исторически музей във Велико Търново през м. април т.г., много хора изказаха пожелания храмът да се превърне в мавзолей на българските средновековни държавници.

В изпълнение на това пожелание директорът на НИМ Божидар Димитров командирова в Украйна експедиция, ръководена от доц. Пламен Павлов от Университета във Велико Търново, където руски археолози отдавна бяха открили погребенията на българските владетели кан Кубрат /632-660 г./, кан Аспарух /660-701 г./ и цар Ивайло /1277-1280 г-/.

Тримата български владетели са били погребани съответно край Полтава, Малая Перешчепина и Исакча.

Друга експедиция донесе от Македония пръст и пепел от изтлелите кости на българския владетел Михаил Шишман /1323-1330 г./, загинал в битка край Кюстендил и погребан в църквата "Св. Георги" в село Старо Нагоричане, Кумановско.

Пепел и пръст са взети и от гроба на цар Георги Тертер /1280-1292 г./, чийто гроб бе открит преди известно време край средновековния град Червеи, Русенско.

Мощите на петимата владетели са положени в мраморни ковчежета, които ще бъдат положени в големи мраморни саркофази в църквата. Кметът на Велико Търново г-н Румен Рашев ще финансира устройството на саркофазите и надписите върху тях.

Денят, в който мощите на петте български държавници ще бъдат препогребани с полагащите им се държавни и религиозни церемонии, ще бъде уточнен допълнително и съобщен на медиите.

С този акт ще бъде оказана почит на всички висши средновековни български държавници, чиито гробове са известни на историческата наука с изключение на мощите на цар Самуил, намиращи се в Гърция и чието препогребване е обект на продължаващи преговори с гръцката страна.

Националният исторически музей се надява, че християнска Гърция не би оставила костите на един християнин като цар Самуил без християнско погребение, съобщават от НИМ.
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I really like this idea.The article says that the relics of Bulgarian kings will be buried in our old capital Veliko Tarnovo.It will be a mausoleum of our kings.

[nilix]

Станишев поздрави Велико Търново за Деня на независимостта

"Тези събития ни зареждат с нови сили и идеи, за да се справяме с всички предизвикателства в живота ни", пише в поздравлението.

Министър-председателят Сергей Станишев изпрати поздравителен адрес до участниците в тържествата за Деня на независимостта във Велико Търново, съобщиха от общинската администрация.

"Денят на независимостта, заедно със Съединението са празници с особено значение за нас, българите, тъй като са извоювани без чужда помощ, благодарение на самочувствието и увереността в собствените ни сили.

Тези събития ни зареждат с нови сили и идеи, за да се справяме с всички предизвикателства в живота ни", пише в поздравлението.

[Turnovec]

Айде честито! Хммм ... хубав ден в който е станало две на нула за България.....лошото е, че на края на веригата се озова говедото Станишев.....

[Turnovec]

Originally Posted by nilix

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I really like this idea.The article says that the relics of Bulgarian kings will be buried in our old capital Veliko Tarnovo.It will be a mausoleum of our kings.

This is pure marauding and I am not possitive about the idea ... Especially when it comes from people like Bozidar Dimitrov

If they go like this ... then let's move Batenberg from Sofia to Tarnovo. dug out Ferdinand from Koburg, the heart of Boris III or whatever is left of him ...

Talking seriously - Let's leave the graves where they are. When there was need some one to be moved , it was done - Tsar Kalojan for example.

And for the mayor perticipating in this enterprise ... I am not surprised ... What do you expect from a gynaecologist ?

[BiH-x]

Amazingly picturesque city. I love these shots:

[Turnovec]

Originally Posted by BiH-x

Amazingly picturesque city.

Hehe ... it seems that bosnians fell in love with my home town , judging by Sarajka that started this thread and by some other bosnian friends that were my guests in Veliko Tarnovo

BiH-x , I am sure you will be the same case if you get the chance to visit it someday. If you do have that chance give me a call and it would be a pleasure to guide you around

[BiH-x]

Originally Posted by Turnovec

Hehe ... it seems that bosnians fell in love with my home town , judging by Sarajka that started this thread and by some other bosnian friends that were my guests in Veliko Tarnovo

BiH-x , I am sure you will be the same case if you get the chance to visit it someday. If you do have that chance give me a call and it would be a pleasure to guide you around

I can clearly see how this is a city Bosnians could feel at home in

And Ill definitely look you up if Im coming to VT

[Anto.]

On which date is the International Folklore festival Veliko Tarnovo? Ive never been to the city, but it looks very pretty.

[Turnovec]

@ BiH-x , you are welcome Anytime

@ Anto. the festival is held in the last week of July and the first of August each year. It is worth visiting as it is Veliko Tarnovo ... it is a shame you are half bulgarian and half brit and you never been there If you decide to come some day pm me too

[Anto.]

Thanks! I think ill come for next summers festival. I just got back form bulgaria, but only saw Bourgas, Sozopol, Plovdiv and Sofia.

[Turnovec]

ok Call me when you decide to come

[Anto.]

And call me if your in London

[Turnovec]

Откриват 100-тния хотел във Велико Търново

Hotel number 100 will be open this week in Veliko Tarnovo.
This year's tourist growth is 20%. 270 000 tourists have visited the city's museums since 1st January to 1st September.

Since year 2000 the number of tourists have risen 3 times ...
in the next 10 years the local tourist industry (with 15 000 employees) expexts more than 4 mln. tourists to visit the city

Около 20 % ръст на туристическата индустрия отчита към края на туристическия сезон Община Велико Търново спрямо м.г. Над 270 хил. туристи са посетили музейните обекти в старата столица само от началото на годината до 1 септември, съобщи Янтра днес. Всеки втори се е разходил из крепостните стени на Царевец.

През последните осем години се наблюдава устойчива тенденция на трайно увеличаване на броя на туристите, посетили Велико Търново и Арбанаси.

В сравнение с 2000 г. сега туристопотокът е нараснал трикратно, отчетоха Даниел Панов, управител на общинската туристическа агенция “Царевград Търнов”, и н.с. Иван Църов, директор на Регионалния исторически музей.

Според прогнозите, изготвени от специалисти, очакванията са, че Велико Търново и регионът през следващите 10-15 г. ще бъдат посетени от близо 3 млн. български и около 1 млн. чуждестранни туристи, каза кметът на общината д-р Румен Рашев.

До дни откриваме стотния хотел във Велико Търново, съобщи д-р Рашев. В момента в града са регистрирани и категоризирани 95 хотела, къщи за гости, хостели и пансиони.

В процедура на регистрация и категоризация са още 12 обекта. Хотелите предлагат над 2500 места за настаняване. До 1 август т.г. хотелиерите са внесли в общинския бюджет близо 35 хил. лв. туристически такси.

Събираемостта е ниска, защото не е уточнен механизмът на нейното регистриране, обясни д-р Рашев. Над 15 хил. човека работят в туристическата индустрия в община В. Търново, което я определя като една от водещите за икономиката на региона.

Очаква се скоро на крепостта “Царевец” да има подвижен мост над сечената скала, както е било по времето на Второто българско царство, каза вчера д-р Рашев. Разработката е съвместна между Общината и военния завод “Терем – Ивайло”. Проектът ще се финансира изцяло от общинския бюджет. Мостът сутрин ще се спуска и вечер ще се вдига, както е било преди шест века.

Вчера в Световния ден на туризма цар и царица обявяваха всеки турист за символичен гражданин на старопрестолния Търновград.

От догодина високопоставените гости на Велико Търново ще получават специална старопрестолна грамота, удостоверяваща за посещението в Царевград Търнов, столица на България от 1185 до 1393 г. На нея са изписани търновските владетели и 17-те търновски патриарси, както и светиите, покровители на старата столица.

[Делян]

Originally Posted by Murci

it looks very oriental

Oh, thanks! You just made my day!

[joce23]

Ancient Bulgaria Presents: Veliko Tarnovo
Author: Carol Pucci, The Journal News
http://international.ibox.bg/comment/id_66388374

Here in Bulgaria's former royal capital, even a budget traveler can live like a king.
Let's start with the dinner at the Gurko Tavern, a cozy restaurant and hotel built into a cliff overlooking a canyon carved out by the snaking Yantra River.

Starving after eight hours on the train from Bucharest, Romania, my husband, Tom, and I started with King's beers (worth buying just for the opener built into the bottom of each bottle) and a platter of roasted red and green bell peppers. Then it was cold yogurt soup with cucumbers, baked trout and crepes with bananas and ice cream. The bill was 20 Bulgarian lev, the equivalent of about $14.

We might have snagged one of the Gurko's 11 rooms with balconies, AC and cable TV ($68), but the hotel was booked. So we ended up next door at the new Nomads Hostel, where we paid $35 for a private room - bathroom down the hall but the same great view.

Perched on the steep sides of an S-shaped gorge in the foothills of the Balkan Mountains, Veliko Turnovo became the capital of Bulgaria's restored 2nd kingdom following the overthrow of Byzantine rulers in 1185.

Art and architecture, culture and trade flourished before the Turks invaded in 1393. After Bulgaria's liberation from the Ottomans in the late 1800s, Sofia became the capital, but Turnovo remained a center for crafts and trade, attracting wealthy merchants who built fine homes and supported the restoration of monasteries and churches.

Best explored on foot by wandering the narrow streets of its old town, the ancient former capital today is a mixture of all that's new in post-Communist Bulgaria - casinos, pubs and outdoor cafes filled with British tourists sipping $1 cappuccinos and beers - and much that's old, from a medieval castle to domed churches and 19th-century merchant houses tucked along hidden paths and stairways.

The oldest street is Gurko. Cobblestoned and mostly pedestrian, it skirts the side of the gorge across from the sprawling formerly communist-owned Grand Hotel Veliko Turnovo.

Above Gurko are several tiers of white stucco buildings that lean into the narrow streets of the 19th-century bazaar quarter. Most of the buildings that once housed shops for craftsmen, weavers and bakers are filled now with cafes, shops and boutique hotels or guesthouses.

The ruins of the medieval Tsarevets castle on a hill are impressive, but the most striking views - and maybe the oddest, given Tbrnovo's reputation as a hip university town - are of the State Art Museum and a huge black monument dedicated to two brothers who liberated Bulgaria from the Byzantines.

The museum is a massive stone building that holds a collection of art mostly acquired during communist times. Hardly anyone visits (a woman came with keys to unlock the doors when we rang the bell), but so far nobody has proposed replacing it with something else.

"Bulgaria is a country of paradoxes," Fedio, the young owner of Nomads Hostel, told a group of us gathered on his balcony one evening for conversation and his homemade apple brandy.

Turnovo is easily reached by train or bus, but many of the surrounding area's treasures lie hidden in the forests and mountains, and the only practical way to see them is by car.

We took Fedio up on an offer to be our driver and guide for a day for $40, about what we would have paid for a rental car alone. Sixty or so miles from town, centuries of history unfolded, and as Fedio predicted, a few paradoxes.

We stopped first at the Dryanovski Monastery, destroyed during an uprising against the Turks, then rebuilt after liberation. Its river location makes it a peaceful spot for a picnic. For those who want to stay longer, there's a small hotel where double rooms with forest and river views go for $21.

Fedio drove us over the twisting Shipka mountain pass and into the Valley of the Roses where growers produce about 70 percent of the world's rose extract for perfumes, oils, etc.

Poking through the trees were a crop of gold, onion-shaped domes. Shipka was the site of an important battle fought by Bulgarians and their Russian liberators against the Turks, and an Orthodox church built in Russian style stands as a memorial.

Ancient burial mounds dot this part of inland Bulgaria. It's possible to visit the 2,300-year-old tomb of a Thracian ruler inside what looks like a futuristic glass concrete entrance to an underground house.

Juxtaposed to all of this is one of the strangest sites you'd expect to see in the wilderness - a huge, spaceship-shaped concrete monument atop a mountain called Mount Buzludzha.

Left from the communist era and marked by a huge red star, it sits on the spot where leaders founded the Bulgarian Socialist Party in a secret meeting in 1891.

To get there, we parked the car and hiked along a steep path. The walk brought back memories for Fedio, who was 11 when communism fell in 1989.

It took the military years to build it, and soldiers died as they worked in the wind and cold.

"It's the way Communists showed their power - by building things of huge, solid blocks," he said. "And now it's dead." The building is lonely and abandoned at the top of one of Bulgaria's most scenic lookouts, not far from another important historical marker, the Freedom Monument, which commemorates a battle that eventually led to the defeat of the Ottoman Turks.

Another paradox for sure. On a clear day, standing here looking out over a country that's enjoying its freedom once again, it was one worth savoring.

[Turnovec]

Thank's jose23

You can post this in the Your EE travel experiences thread too if you want

[Murci]

Originally Posted by BiH-x

I can clearly see how this is a city Bosnians could feel at home in

And Ill definitely look you up if Im coming to VT

Agree with that , appart from Orthodox churches it looks very oriental, like hillside neighbourhoods of old ottoman part of Sarajevo .

[Делян]

Originally Posted by Murci

it looks very oriental, like

Oh, thanks! You just made my day!
Where did you see "oriental" in Veliko Tarnovo?

[new bulgaria]

Originally Posted by delyan

Oh, thanks! You just made my day!
Where did you see "oriental" in Veliko Tarnovo?

He has an agenda! Let him see what he want to see. He's just another dillusional Bosnian.

[Turnovec]

maybe we must remind Murci how Srajaka saw VT at first place :

Originally Posted by Sarajka

I wouldn't call it typical at all. Some of the architecture is Southeast Balkans/Ottoman but everything else is just surprising and breathtaking.

It's as though someone took the Elve's kingdom in Lord of the Rings, mixed in the Great Wall of China, a little Berat, a little Sarajevo, a whole lot of ancient Bulgaria - a few dashes of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with a little bit of the Grand Canyon and called it a day.

That church/monument located on the peak, connected to the rest of the city by a bridge on either side is just unreal. And the wall, with the church on the mountain peak is gorgeous. The narrow, winding streets are like a glorified version of coastal Italy. It's just...

This is my new favorite non-Sarajevo city. Sorry Istanbul.

This sceneries below are what she is talkign about