Kremikovtsi Monastery
Hillside Orthodox monastery with a small stone church painted with rare fifteenth-century frescoes.
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This guide to Kremikovtsi Monastery, in the hills on the northeastern edge of Sofia, is about a Sofia nobleman named Radivoy and the church he paid for in fourteen ninety-three. It follows the family he had painted on the wall beside the bishop Kalevit, and the two children named in his dedication. You will also meet a seated Saint George with a dragon underfoot. Start in the low entrance hall of the old church, facing its east wall.
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