Price: Bulgarian Orthodox monastery located near the border with Serbia. It is located below the peak Chernoglav in Western Fore and played an important role in the history of Bulgaria . Nowadays Rakovitsa monastery "St. Trinity " is a monument of culture. It is a permanent and a complex of two churches , residential and commercial buildings . Church is as it was at its founding in X century it is of the " inscribed cross " and a cross with a high dome of six drum wall and outbuildings in the early XIX century narthex. In 1825 the church was painted , and in 1979 it valuable frescoes were restored . The rest of the monastery was destroyed several times during the Ottoman rule , and the last time the monastery was looted in the early XIX century, during the rebellion led by Osman Pazvantoglu .
In 1848 the monastery "St. Trinity " found the first secular school in northwestern Bulgaria . Cloister became an important center of the national liberation struggle of the Bulgarian people. That is where the leaders of the People's Liberation Organization of Kula , Vidin , Belogradchik and Lom decide Vidin Uprising in 1850 - which is among the most popular during the Ottoman rule , as well as the uprising in 1856 after the Liberation in memory of those killed in the uprising , has built a new church attached to the west side high belfry.
It is believed that Rakovitsa Monastery is one of the 15 monasteries St. Pimen Zografski recovered at the end of the XVI century and the beginning of the XVII century, one of nine saints Sofia years toured Bulgarian lands preached built and updated temples and monasteries , and decorate them with murals . First visited Sofia and its surroundings , then was in southern Bulgaria and Bachkovo . And traveled across North Bulgaria , where visited Vidin , Silistra and other cities.
Today the courtyard is the tomb of Captain Nikolai Kiryaev . Courage and beauty of the 35 -year-old nobleman of Petersburg is legendary. He met his death near the monastery in 1876 during the Serbian -Turkish war near Rakovitza .
Rakovitsa monastery "St. Trinity " does not offer accommodation and food. The monastery can be reached on foot in about 40 minutes. From the cloister leads to the town of Vidin ( about 49 km) on a secondary road to the northeast and to the town of Belogradchik ( about 34 km) - a third class road to the southeast.
The church of the monastery is holiday of Pentecost.
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