Built from the 15C onwards, the Nativity Church includes a nave, a narthex and an outside gallery leading to St-John-the-Baptist's chapel. However, the most remarkable features of the church are the walls which are literally covered with frescoes dat..

The 17C Kostancaliev House is one of the fortress-style residential buildings of Arbanasi village, on Unesco's World Heritage list. The stone-built ground floor was intended for servants, animals and crops. The wooden upper floor was the living quart..

In the same vein as the Church of the Nativity, this church is decorated with frescoes from 1760 in a slightly mannered style.

Hardly anything remains of the 10C monastery, where the patriarch Euthymius founded the Turnovo literary school in 1375. However, this blue and white women's monastery, nestling beneath an impressive rocky cliff, conveys an impression of intense sere..