Ledenik, Bulgaria

North of the village, in close proximity, is the first class republican road I-4 (Sofia - Veliko Tarnovo - Varna).

Fogs (increased humidity from the Yantra River) and frosts are typical for the cold half of the year.

In the warm half of the year unfavorable climatic phenomena are: hail, droughts and torrential rains.

In the vicinity of the village there are rabbits, foxes, deer, field mice, quails, larks, terns, nightingales, magpies, jays, woodpeckers, blackbirds and others.

a medieval church was discovered 1 km to the west, on the high terrain with a large slope towards the Yantra River.

According to legend, the village during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom was in the area "Disagite", around a lush spring, now captured as a fountain.

[5] In the Turkish tax register from 1430 there is a village called Ledenik, which is recorded as a timar of Sayyaklu Bayazid and has 1 Muslim, 47 Christian families and 2 widows.

[7] The legend [8] tells that the only son of the bey fell in love with the beautiful Bulgarian girl Neda.

Late in the evening, Neda, who had already woken up, went secretly to Tarnovo, but on leaving the village they were seen by a man from Ledenik and the rumor about the resurrected girl spread through the village and reached the ears of the bey, who, overwhelmed with suspicion, ordered that the girl's grave be dug up.

Learning of the tragedy that befell his family, the brother gathered his party and attacked the bey's retinue.

The fortified residential Shemshi Bay Tower from 1650 on Mela Hill has been turned into an ethnographic museum.

[9] The painter probably did his work before he started painting the church in Transfiguration Monastery and the famous "Wheel of Life".

The architectural atmosphere of the Renaissance era is preserved in the village - old houses on 1-2 floors, with stone foundations and veranda.