Getting There: Elena

Society | March 14, 2003, Friday // 00:00

Elena is one of those places in Bulgaria where one can feel the old spirit of Bulgaria, being a town with rich history and many interesting places to visit.

It is situated in the Middle Balkan Range, 42 km south-east of Veliko Turnovo.

Elena is an old settlement founded in the 15th C. In the 18th-19th centuries it is established as a crafts, trade and educational centre. There have been preserved several architectural ensembles dating back to the Bulgarian National Revival and comprising about 130 old houses. Wall-to-wall construction forms interesting street silhouettes. The houses have stone basements with white-washed or wooden walls of the upper floor with protruding bays above.

If you go to Elena, don't miss to visit the first class school, founded in 1848 and named Daskalolivnitsa where future teachers have been educated (nowadays a museum exhibition is arranged), St. Nicholas Church (16th C., with valuable mural paintings, icons) and the three-naved Church of the Assumption, built entirely of stone (1837) and the town clock-tower (1812), which is with an antique clock mechanism.

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