Consider Nottingham and the vast majority of people remember the legend of Sir Robin Hood, his band of merry men, Sherwood Forest and the Sherrif of Nottingham and though the story adds greatly to the local economy yearly there is plenty more to Nottinghamshire and the city of Nottingham than your would think. Infact Nottingham is home to a reasonable selection of fascinating local attractions making it a superb place for a family vacation and the article below discusses the city and a small number of tourist attractions in, and close to, Nottingham, as well as some hotels and guest houses offering Nottingham B&B accommodation.

Nottingham is in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. As well as the legend of Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest and the Sheriff of Nottingham, the city is also strongly associated with the lace business especially during the period of the Industrial Revolution when the city gained an excellent worldwide reputation.

The Lace Market

At one time the center of the worldwide lace industry, at the time of the British Empire, the Lace Market in Nottingham is, today, a protected heritage area. It  features numerous fantastic examples of industrial architecture of the Nineteenth Century. The Lace Market was not like a normal market, as such, rather than having stalls and their stall holders, the lace market was more a number of salesrooms and warehouses displaying and selling lace. Following the downturn in the lace industry the market also fell into decline however, nowadays, the vast majority of the fine warehouses have been renovated and restored for residential use and other purposes such as photographic studios and similar. The Lace Market is a popular tourist attraction.

Galleries of Justice

Near to the Lace Market can be found the Galleries of Justice located in Shire Hall. Shire Hall is a Georgian building which features Neoclassical columns, pilasters and dome. The front of the hall has, if you examine it carefully, a spelling error Goal rather than Gaol. The Hall has two excellently preserved courtrooms from the Victorian period plus a women’s prison, bath house, old cells, a prisoner’s exercise yard and an Edwardian police station.

The City of Nottingham is a superb place to take a city break. You will find plenty to see and do within the city and an selection number of tourist attractions within easy reach. Nearby places well worth visiting include; Newstead Abbey, Wollaton Hall and Hardwick Hall.

As is common in all England bed & breakfast accommodation, accommodation in Nottingham is mostly of excellent quality at a reasonable price and many visitors choose to stay in Nottingham for part of their vacation and then elsewhere for the remaining nights.

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The name of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria is directly connected with the Medieval Hill Tsarevets. And reasonably, Veliko Turnovo was called the Second Constantinople and had prospered for more than 200 years in the Medieval. Its fortified fortress walls cover three hills. They seem to be an extension of the rock string, separated by the meander of the Yantra River. The Tsarevets Hill is the most gorgeous one. The main fortress is there. The two main institutions of that time were situated there – The Tsar’s castle and the Patriarchate.The fortress wall is 2km long and 2.6m wide. It distinguished with the many covered towers. Three entrances were available in the fortress. A narrow rock isthmus with three consecutively situated gates, guarded by towers, is the where the main entrance is. The rock isthmus at the first gate is cut (4.50m width) and connected with a draw-bridge, which was up at night or when the fortress was in danger and was down during the day and in peaceful times. The other two gates, situated on several meters one from each other, also obstructed the aggresors’ way. The patriarch complex, the “St. Ascension Day” church, the bell tower and the patriarch’s residence (surrounded by a separate fortress wall) are situated on top of the hill. The Tsars’ castle is situated on the most comfortable place, on smooth terrain – a real citadel (inner fortress), which covers 5 decares of land. Long time could the thick fortress walls hold off a siege, after the outer walls had fallen. {The limited area of Tsarevets made it impossible for all the noble people to live in there}. Thus, it is supposed that the closest relatives of the tsar and his husband settled in the rest of the area along with the rest of the noble population, called Bolyari. There were about 110 families, according to Constantine Kostenechki. A part of them settled down on the hill of Trapezitsa, which formed as a aristocratic quarter, surrounded by a strong fortress wall with five towers and three gates and numerous churches, a part of which were family ones.
The city formed as a center of political, spiritual, economical and cultural life. The name of the capital of Bulgaria was spoken with respect in whole Europe. It became a center of development of the Slav writing and culture. There were the Evtimieva literary school, the vocal school of Joan Kukuzel, The Painting and Architectural school of Turnovo. The most famous literature pieces of art that have reached to nowadays were written by the men of letters Patriarch Evtimii, Grigorius Tsamblak, and Kiprian.

If this article has intrigued you, you can always find accommodation in Bulgaria – in Veliko Turnovo or in the nearby resort villages, such as Arbanassi. You will enjoy the combination of history, nature and modern entertainment.

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