The Dryanovo monastery is located 6 km from Dryanovo on the highway in the direction of Gabrovo. The monastery was named in honor of St. The Archangel Michael. For several centuries the monastery was a center of culture and Christianity, however, pilgrims and tourists flock to the Shrine in our day.

He founded a monastery when the ruler Kaloyan in the XII century. The original location of the Church was two miles from the current location, as in 1393 the Ottoman invaders burned the monastery to the ground. Recovery Dryanovo monastery begun by the efforts of the local population in the sixteenth century, but for the building was chosen this time across the river. However, the Turks once again destroyed the Holy abode.

His present place to the monastery of St. Archangel Michael received at the end of the XVII century. Not long after, the monastic complex was added to the library, which became an important monastic book center in the Renaissance of Bulgaria. In the XVIII century, the monastery was attacked by kircali (robbers-the Turks) and was again burned.

Thus, in the XIX century the monastery complex for the third time literally reborn from the ashes. Since 1845, has renewed the Church.

The Dryanovo monastery is the Keeper of the Museum exhibition "Archaeology and Rebirth". Finds discovered in close proximity to the monastery, presented on display to everyone. Each of them talks about the development of the area and the history of the national spiritual center. Here you can see tools, household items, coins, and ceramics, as well as many other finds of Neolithic and Paleolithic.

The Central place in the exposition of the monastic Museum occupies a part devoted to "the April uprising against Ottoman rule. There are pictures of weapons, personal belongings of the fighters for the freedom of the Motherland.

In addition, the monastery also runs a special recreation area and children's Playground. For tourists also feature kiosks with Souvenirs in the ample Parking lot.