There are a great many weird places as one tours Bulgaria. One of these sites is unique – the Dome Tomb from the era of the Classical Antiquity near the Black Sea town of Pomorie. It sits among well-groomed vineyards and orchard gardens, only 300..
People used to call September 22 “The Tsar’s Holiday”, as that was the date back in 1908 when then Prince Ferdinand read the historical manifest to the people, officially proclaiming the overthrowing of the vassal dependence on the Ottoman..
Bulgarian artist Petya Petrova has not lost touch with her country although she has been living for 17 years in the German town of Aachen. On the contrary, each year her love for her country and everything associated with Bulgaria becomes..
“Knowledge is wealth, whoever knows shall have success,” the people says and parents tend to repeat that all the time. No matter the long years of transition, this has remained a basic feature of the society. September 15, the first..
The pretty village of Dzhuliunitsa (Veliko Tarnovo district) is brimming with abundance in autumn. The village gardens are covered with fruit. Local gardeners contend that the most delicious peppers and tomatoes grow there. You only need to..
The price of success for one of the ‘golden girls’ of Bulgarian rhythmic gymnastics means a lot of work, training and gathering of precious experience through time. The success would be unthinkable without the power of love in the souls of the..
The town of Pomorie is situated some 20 km away from Burgas. Every Bulgarian has heard the song of Nedyalko Yordanov named A Family Memory of Pomorie and whoever has visited the place would love to return there. It simply has it all –..
The 15 th of August is Assumption Day, a feast particularly venerated across the Bulgarian lands, connected with the Mother of God – patroness of childbirth, of motherhood and the giving of life. In towns and villages where there is a church or a..
In the village of Staro Zhelezare near Plovdiv, life used to be no different to life in any other village in Bulgaria. People here would rise before daybreak to tend to the stock and take the cows and the sheep out to graze. Then the people who..
Cost of living in Bulgaria has been going up over the past months and the poverty of the majority of people has been boosting, a report of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria /CITUB/ shows. ‘Incomes and any possibilities..
