Thirty kilometres southwest of Târnovo on the main road to Gabrovo, the drab town of DRYANOVO is only really of note for its proximity to Dryanovski Monastery, another 4km south. The town's only sights are down to local boy Nikolai Fichev, popularly known as Kolyo Ficheto (1800-1881), who is honoured with his own museum (Mon-Fri 8am-noon & 1-5pm), occupying a modern pavilion in the town centre. The most versatile of nineteenth-century Bulgaria's builders, he was responsible for town houses in Târnovo, bridges at Lovech and Byala, and numerous churches. Famous for the Fichevska kobilitsa (Fichev yoke), the wavy line which characterizes the roof-lines and pediments on all his best works, he often put double-headed eagles and lions on the eastern facade of his buildings, to symbolize the direction from which Bulgaria's liberation - in the shape of Russian power - was expected to come. The museum contains superb scale models of all Ficheto's key works, including the church of Sveti Nikola , the original of which lies 200m away on the road to Gabrovo.

Dryanovo's train and bus stations are both a couple of blocks east of the main thoroughfare, ul. Shipka, although most buses on the Târnovo-Dryanovo-Gabrovo route only stop on the main street.