EU: Veliko Tarnovo - Town view (1901) through time

Veliko Tarnovo 1901–1910 5 photos of this spot

5 photographs taken at the same spot in Veliko Tarnovo, spanning 1901–1910 — 5 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

The Yantra River winding through Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, photographed in 1901. The river loops around the steep hills on which the town was built, a site chosen for its natural defenses when it served as capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

EU: Veliko Tarnovo - Yantra River (1901) 1901 The Yantra River winding through Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, photographed in 1901. The river loops around the steep hills on which the town was built, a site chosen for its natural defenses when it served as capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

EU: Veliko Tarnovo - St. Peter and Paul Church (1901) 1901 The Church of St. Peter and Paul in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, photographed in 1901, one of several medieval churches that survive from the city's centuries as capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

EU: Veliko Tarnovo - St. Demetrius Church (1901) 1901 The Church of St. Demetrius in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, photographed in 1901. Tradition holds that the church was the site where the Second Bulgarian Empire was proclaimed in 1185, ending nearly two centuries of Byzantine rule over the Bulgarian lands.

EU: Veliko Tarnovo - Town view (1901) 1901 A view over Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, in 1901, showing the hillside town built along the winding Yantra River that served as capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.

EU: Veliko Tarnovo - Tsarevets Fortress (1910) 1910 The medieval Tsarevets Fortress in Veliko Tarnovo is captured in this 1910 photograph. Built on a hill overlooking the Yantra River, the fortress served as the stronghold of Bulgaria's medieval tsars and the seat of the Second Bulgarian Empire before its fall in the fourteenth century.