Dryanovska River

Dryanovska River springs out from the Tryavna part of the Balkan Mountain, above the Plachkovtsi village. The river forms a deep, hardly passable defile between the village of Tsareva livada and Dryanovo. The defile is long 7 km and divides the Karst plateau Strazhata, as the Dryanovo monastery lies here. Slightly before reaching the town of Veliko Tarnovo the river flows into the Yantra River. Dryanovska River has a water basic of 336 sq.m. The soils surrounding the river favours the growth of Myzia oak, hornbeam and durmast, and the river is quite fish rich. The river is also famous with the bridge, work of Kolio Fitcheto from the middle of 19th century. The facility is one of the early works of the master, in which he developed his own ideas about the traditional for the Bulgarian Revival “bent” (Roman) bridge.