Yantra, Railway Station Square, tel.: 2-48-12 and 2-53-72, two stars, 320 beds, restaurant.
Bouzloudja, Palaouzovo quarter, accommodating 160.
The Inn, 15 Opulchenska St., national tavema.
The Mogdyov compound, May 1st square, restaurant 90, national tavema, 1 Aprilovska Street.
A Rest and Tourism bureau — 2 Opulchenska St.
An open-air museum is 8 km south of Gabrovo, bearing the old name of the river Yantra — Etura, It is an architectural- ethnographic compound, with several workshops which are now an ethnographic rarity. 26 crafts which flourished in Gabrovo during the National Revival are exhibited, and many are originals. There is a two-storeyed Bulgarian house from the Na-
tional Revival Period built in the architectural style typical of the region. The interior design is executed in the folk style of the last century. There is a national tavema on the ground floor. On the right bank of the Sivak River (Yantra's left tributary) there is a workshop for making knives, the mill, a woodturning lathe for plates and small bowls, a tower, a saw mill.
4 km from the Etura perched on a rock is the Gabrovo (also known as Sokol) monastery, It was founded in 1833, The church with its frescoes (1834) is of particular interest and also the old fountain.
There is a hotel nearby accommodating 50, and a hotel- restaurant sofia guided tours.
VELIK0 TURNOVO – OMOURTAG – TURGOVISHTE – SHOUMEN – PRESLAV – MADARA – NOVI PAZAR – VARNA (240 km)
From Veliko lumovo to the Black Sea coast at Varna, passing through Antonovo (pop. 2,000) — which was important centre during 1943-1944, when the Omourtag partisan detachment operated in this area. Late in 1943 the fascists sent troops, police units and gendarmerie who terrorised the population. 25 km east, along E-771 is Omourtag (pop, 10,200t, founded in the 16th century, the town is now an industrial and agricultural centre.
Our next stop is Turgovishte (pop. 46,000), on the river Vrana. This town was founded during Ottoman rule. In those times it was known as a large fair centre called Eski Djoumaya.
Southeast of the town is a large park with pond and restaurant. A museum has been set up in the old secondary school; the poet and public figure Petko Slaveikov taught here.
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