The town of Tryavna is located in the northern folds of the picturesque Stara planina Mountain in the valley of Trevnenska River, 440 meters above the sea level. The town lies 245 km from both – Sofia and Varna, 170 km from Plovdiv, 219 km from Bourgas, and 130 km from Russe. Tryavna is an administrative centre of Tryavna municipality. Tryavna is a town preferred by tourists for its clean mountain air and unique Renaissance architecture. The guests of the town will enjoy their excursions to various villages and huts, scattered in the vicinity. A good road and railroad network connects the town with all farther spots of the country.
Feeling the beauty, with faith towards centuries-old traditions and love towards the Bulgarian Heritage, the Tryavna masters gain popularity in the field of building, woodcarving and icon painting, which they handle to perfection and transform into art. Thus comes into being, develops and flourishes the oldest Renaissance Art school in the Bulgarian land - the Tryavna school.

Quick facts about town of Tryavna
In Bulgarian Alphabets: Трявна
Location: North-Central Bulgaria
Distance to capital city: 179 km from Sofia
Latitude: 42.867 N
Longitude: 25.5 E
Altitude: 300 - 500 m above the sea level
Province: Gabrovo District
Municipality: Tryavna Municipality
Area size of town of Tryavna: 16.122 sq km
Population: 10 291 inhabitants (to 01/01/2007)
Post code (ZIP): 5350
Phone code: 0677 from Bulgaria; 00359677 from outside.

History
According to the legend the settlement originated during the 12th century during the reign of the Assen Dynasry. The youngest brother Kaloyan erected the St. Archangel Michail Church in the area of Truvna (named after the resilient grass around), around which a whole village gradually grew up. During the Ottoman Rule Tryavna was a privileged settlement, whose inhabitants guerded the pass through the Balkan to Odrin and Istanbul. The settlement reached prosperity at the end of the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century when the crafts, the applied arts and the trade established themselves on the market. The influence of the representatives of Tryavna Art School is strongly felt. Masons built beautiful houses, schools and churches. Icon-painters ornamented them with icons and mural paintings and joiners (woodcarvers) completed their work with unparalleled alrats, ceilings and windows. Felix Kanits who visited the town in 1872 called in the "Bulgarian Nuerenberg". A lot of Tryavna citizens took an active part in the struggles for an indipendent Bulgarian church, for national awareness and liberation. The town is birthplace of of Levski's associate Angel Kunchev. Petko R. Slaveikov lived there, too and his eminent son, the poet Pencho P. Slaveikov was born in Tryavna.
The exceptionally healthy climate and the divine countryside of Tryavna made it a paramount resort as early in 1896. Later on the first in our country children's sanatorium for chest diseases was built up here with a donation from Tsaritsa Ioana (wife of Tsar Boris III).

Landmarks
Tryavna has preserved its Revival appearance even today. The old part was proclaimed an architecture reserve with about 140 monuments of Revival architecture. The biggest evidence of it are the ensmbles at Dyado Nikola Square, P.R. Slaveikov Street, Peter Bogdanov Street, Kachaunska Mahala (quarter). The Daskalov's House (1804) is incomparable, in which the Museum of Woodcarving and Icon-Painting is located. The two magnificent woodcarved ceilings created by Dimitar Oshanina and Ivan Bochukovetsa in 1808 after a bet made between them. The Tryavna School of Icon-Painting Museum contains over 160 icons. ST. Archangel Mihail Church dating back to 1819 with its magnificent richly carved iconostasis (work of Vitan Koyuv-Junior), the unusually beautiful bishop's throne made by Priest Koyu Vitanov about 1821. The church possesses a relic - over-throne cross of palisander wood carved with 12 scenes from the Bible.
St. Georgi Church (1848 - 1852) has a remarkable iconostasis, work of the masters Dimitur Deikov and Nikola Dragostinov (1852). In Shkoloto (The School) Museum there are permanent exhibitions, among which the donation of the world famous Bulgarian painter Dimitur Kazakov stands out. The exhibits in the collection "Time-measuring devices and technology of Medieval times up to the end of the 19th century" are quite original. The Clock Tower (1814, in the central Capitan Dyado Nikola Square). The upper bridge (1844). The Totyo Gubenski Art Gallery in the ancient Kalinchev's house dates back to 1830. It is in possession of 500 pictures donated by the collector Gubenski. The Ivan Popdimitrov House-Museum with pictures, donated by his grandson. There is permanent exhibition, too - a donation by the sculptor Ivan Kolev.
Every odd year on 26th and 27th May Slaveikov's Days are held here including vatious cultural events. The town is host of the unique in the country International Plain-Air Painting on Wood Plastics "Bet in Tryavna", which is held each year.

Surrounding areas
The recreational town of Plachkovtsi (at the distance of 7 km to the south of Tryavna) is an important point of departure for the Tryavna Balkan Mountain. The natural phenomena Vikanata Skala (The Called Rock), Muhnatite Skali (the Mossy Rocks) and Stolishta are located here. There is a tourist house, too. There is a bus and railway transport functioning between the two towns.
The village of Bojentsi - Architecture and Ethnographic Reserve (at the distance of 28 km west along the road to Dryanovo; on foot it may be reached for about 1 - 1.30 hours from the Sechen Kamuk Hill on the road to Gabrovo) - almost all the buildings here were built during the 18th and mainly during the 19th century in the typical of this region of Bulgaria Revival style. In Bojentsi one iss carried away into the past and finds out an unsuspected idyll and calmness among the spirituality of the odl houses. There is a museum, too. Every year in the beginning of September the village hosts a plain-air "Autumn in Bojentsi", and from June to September  - an exhibition-bazaar of works or art is held here, too. There is a regular bus transport from Gabrovo and Dryanovo. Patterns of ancient architecture are preserved in the near small villages of Skortsi, Dobrevtsi, Kereni, Kissiitsi, Genchevtsi. There are regular busses from Tryavna.