• Trapezitza hill rises on the opposite
bank of the Yantra River. Here were the
boyars' homes and some public buildings,
churches above all. Seventeen of these
have been unearthed. At the foot of the
two hills, outside the fortress walls,
several mediaeval churches from the
Second Bulgarian Kingdom have been
preserved: St. Dimiter of Salonika, Holy
Forty Martyrs, Sts. Peter and Paul.
•
Between the 12th and the 14th century
Sveta Gora Hill was the centre of
Bulgaria's religious and cultural life. It is
the Turnovo literary and painting school
that
has
given
the
world
the
Manasses' Chronicle and King Ivan
Alexan-der's Four Gospels. It exerted a
significant
and
lasting
influence
throughout South-East Europe.