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Bulgaria: Jazz + Festival Kicks off the Summer in Sofia
The fifth edition of the Jazz + Festival, which will take place June 12 to 14, is another reason to visit Bulgaria’s capital at that time of the year. The festival will bring several world-class acts to Sofia, including Susana Baca, the Nguen Le Quartet, Trilok Gurtu and Anja Lechner, Vassilis Tsabropoulos and U.T Gandhi.
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Wine and Rakiya from 6 Balkans Countries Awarded in France
10 March 2009 | Dozens of brands of wine and rakiya, or brandy, from six Balkan countries received gold and silver medals at the 2009 Vinalies Internationales
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Routes Less Travelled
Bulgaria
Chiprovtsi: Stooping Women Guard the Bulgarian Renaissance's Few Traces
If the women in Chiprovtsi are slightly stooped, it is because they have spent the past four centuries sitting on little three-legged chairs. For as long as the place is remembered historically, they have substituted the pianos in their living rooms with massive looms for weaving with which they entertained themselves and their society.
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Belogradchik: What Rocks May Come
Bulgaria
Kurdzhali: Where Men Trade in their Uniforms for Cassocks and the Town Clock Sings
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Bulgaria
Tryavna, Central Bulgaria: A Picturesque Study in Contrasts
The town of Tryavna is one of Bulgaria’s top 100 tourist sites and, as such, it attracts tourists from around the country and abroad with its well-maintained architecture, quaint streets and traditional crafts workshops.
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Plovdiv: A Felicitous Stop on the Orient Express Route
Bulgaria
A City to Remember: Sofia in August
Curiosity Chest
Bulgaria
Medieval Military Horsemen’s Order to be Established in Bulgaria
27 April 2009 | As an alternative to the order of the Knights Templar, the director of Bulgaria’s National History Museum, Bozhidar Dimitrov, intends to establish an order of bagaturs, or medieval Bulgarian horsemen warriors.
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Bulgaria 3/7/14
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Bulgaria in 5 days: Shumen, South of Nowhere
Patriotic ruins, a Coca Cola-branded mosque, a “stud factory” and a capsule, containing a message for future generations: these are only part of modern Shumen’s surprising charms. Full Story
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Bulgaria in 3 Days: Sofia and Mount Vitosha
Bulgaria
Go Green in Bulgaria: 23 Eco-Hotels and Guest Houses to Choose From
Hidden Bulgaria
Bulgaria
From Sofia to the Village of Lakatnik in an Old Locomotive
About a century after Ivan Vazov wrote his short story “To Zhaluysha with Iron Train Cars,” in which he remarked on the great strides in railroad progress and development, present-day journalist, writer and photographer Stefan Galibov also took a train journey Full Story
Bulgaria
Along Suleiman the Magnificent's Bridge in Svilengrad
Bulgaria
Scenic Waterfalls Surround Bulgaria’s Medieval Capital
Balkan Coasts
Balchik: Here Queen Marie Left Her Heart. In a Jar
Bulgaria
It was in 1940. In a glass jar in a chapel in Balchik on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast rested the heart of Queen Marie of Romania. It was her last wish before she died. She had loved Balchik. Full Story
Camping Like There’s No Tomorrow on Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast
The (Possibly) Last Outpost of the Bulgarian Black Sea’s Old Charms
Balkan Mountains
Treasure-Hunting in Bulgaria’s Eastern Rodopi Mountains: Ancient Sites and Whimsical Rocks
Bulgaria
While Bulgaria’s seaside and mountain resorts continue to attract the bulk of both domestic and international tourists, more unconventional destinations around the country are also starting to become popular with travellers. Full Story
Roman Ruins and a Rural Paradise in Bulgaria’s Western Rodopi Mountains
Skiing in Bulgaria: Bansko? Try again
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A Perfect Shot
In Homo Urbanus Europeanus, exhibited May 9-24 in front of the National Theatre in Sofia, Jean-Marc Caracci presents his photographs of people in the urban environment of European capitals.
RED&WHITE SOFIA. On the 1st of March Bulgarians say goodbye to the winter. They buy each other red&white threads to carry around until they see a stork and spring can begin. Photography by Lode Desmet
BULGARIA D'OR: The Bulgarian countryside, patinated with the noble golden dust of the autumn. Photographs by Lode Desmet
360 degrees Bulgaria, an exhibition by photographer Alexandar Ivanov, is on display at the Sea Garden in Varna until August 28. It will be shown at Plovdiv’s Central Square from Sept 5.
The exhibition Photographs of a Trip Through Bulgaria by Hungarian photographer András Balla can be seen in Sofia's Hungarian Cultural Institute, at Aksakov 16 Street, until August 22
Instant Spring in Sofia | Photographs by Lode Desmet
Off-the-season Beauty of Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast | Photographs by Adelina Iliev
Bulgaria's Northern Black Sea Coast
Photographs by Albena Shkodrova
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Travel News
3 July 2009 | The Danube River was at the top of the list of the best 10 rivers for cruising recently compiled by the CruiseCritic.co.uk website.
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