Cherepish Monastery

History links the name of Sophronius of Vratsa, a renowned Bulgarian saint, with the Cherepish Monastery. Like all other Bulgarian monasteries, this one also rises above a river - the Iskar. Over the centuries, men of letters, translators and calligraphers made their home in the monastery.

Those have left us with such valuable works as the Cherepish Gospel of the  XVI century, bound in 1512 with gold cover and depicting scriptural scenes; the Gospel of the Monk Danail, …