Tsarevets

Tsarevets is a medieval stronghold located on a hill with the same name in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. It served as the Second Bulgarian Empire's primary fortress and strongest bulwark from 1185 to 1393, housing the royal and the patriarchal palaces.

On the top of the hill is the patriarchate, a complex whose church, built on the grounds of an Early Christian one, was reconstructed in 1981 and painted in 1985. The frescoes inside, painted in a striking modernist style rather than in the style of traditional Orthodox frescoes, depict conventional Christian subjects as well as glorious and tragic moments of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Tarnovo was the capital of the Medieval Bulgarian kingdom. Contemporaries

have described it as “God’s preserved town”, “The Great Tarnov”, “The queen

of the towns”, ”the second town in words and acts after Constantinople”.

What a great shot!