CLIMATE
The average altitude of the town of Gabrovo is 392 meters, while
surrounding heights reaches 550-600 meters. The climate is temperate - continental, characterized by cold winters and relatively warm summers. Rainfall is markedly continental. Dominated north and northwest winds. The average annual temperatures are around 10 ° C.
In the high mountain areas in the region is snow about 120 days.

HISTORY
Gabrovo is a town with a unique history. It originates from the conversion of Tarnovo in the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire in the 12th century and the consequent importance of the way through the Shipka Pass. According to legend Racho Smith is the founder of Gabrovo, from his anvil is gone livelihood of the village. A village of free and skilled in warfare people who take the security of patya.Te had the privilege to pay less taxes, to retain ownership of their land and produced by them. Locals staged his life as an integral part of the Bulgarian state, built a church, cloister and linked its existence with the passing relics of St Petka, the cult that is maintained to this day. The conquest of the country by the Ottoman Turks changed radically their livelihoods and almost no impact on their belonging to the Orthodox lifestyle and their habits. They continued to guard the pass, because of which belonged to the paramilitary squads dervetnzhiite as already called keepers of the way. With the funds raised from the idea of ​​Gabrovo Vasil Aprilov in Gabrovo is open the first new Bulgarian secular school, which became a model for education in the Bulgarian lands.
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