The first modern Christmas was celebrated in Bulgaria in 1879. It followed a European model with a Christmas tree, ice skating and gifts. At that time, the young Alexander Battenberg, who had just become the Prince of Bulgaria, took it upon..
Having to flee one’s home and country and take the long road to an uncertain future – that is what refugees have invariably faced through the years, and for the same reasons. People have to flee because of war or their religious beliefs, their..
"When a boy becomes a man..." This is the title of the exhibition in which the National Ethnographic Museum recalls life in the barracks during "those 45 years" (of the socialist regime - ed.) For two months, from June 20 to August 20, the exhibition..
The idea of creating a museum to preserve the history of Bulgaria excited the minds and hearts of prominent Bulgarian National Revival figures even before the Liberation of the Bulgaria from the Ottoman Domination (1878). It was realized in 1892, when..
A group of researchers are on the trail of the places that have kept the memory of Bulgaria, so as to outline the country’s cultural bounds outside its national borders. These include monuments, war graves, fortresses, churches, monasteries..
