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Bulgaria
A Carefree Weekend in Lovech, Bulgaria: Revival and Baroque Architecture in the Balkan Mountain
Lovech is full of views fit for postcards, it is quiet and stands under the elevated mountainous land, which constantly reminds you of your proximity to nature. July is one of the most pleasant months in which to visit this splendid and very Bulgarian town, as cool breezes blow from the peaks of the Balkan Mountain Full Story
Epicure
Balkans
Five Delicious Aubergine Recipes
The coming of fall in the Balkans brings with it more than a drop in temperatures and a change of scenery. This time of the year also means good news in the culinary department. Full Story
News
Bulgaria
Bulgaria fears “tumultuous” snow melting
11 February 2012 | After spending the last weeks in deadly cold, now Bulgaria fears that the expected sudden raise in temperatures may turn into another disaster. Meteorologists expressed worries that the situation may go out of control in case all the fallen snow started melting at once. Full Story
Bulgaria
Schengen Zone Expansion with Bulgaria and Romania Blocked
Bulgaria
Bulgaria Presents its Green Cheese to Europe
Routes Less Travelled
Bulgaria
Kurdzhali: Where Men Trade in their Uniforms for Cassocks and the Town Clock Sings
At first sight, Kurdzhali is just like many other provincial towns in Bulgaria: it seems to stand still in time, its communist-style buildings lining the quiet streets and boulevards. But, upon closer inspection, the town’s peculiar history and little quirks, many of them unintentional, charm its visitors.
Here, the housing blocs bear names instead of numbers, army men are driven to give up their uniforms and become God’s servants, the town clock sings patriotic songs, Islamic schools become Russian military barracks and then museums, and gigantic Black Sea ships cross the mountains so as to sail in a man-made lake.
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Belogradchik: What Rocks May Come
Bulgaria
Chiprovtsi: Stooping Women Guard the Bulgarian Renaissance's Few Traces
Curiosity Chest
Balkans
The Red and White Strings that Welcome Spring in Bulgaria and Romania
I remember walking along Canal Street in New York’s Chinatown on March 2 a few years ago, when I saw a man sporting a small ornament made of red and white thread pinned to his coat lapel. He must be Bulgarian, I thought to myself with a sudden rush of homesickness, but now realize that he may have been Romanian as well.
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Hidden Sofia
Bulgaria
From Soviet Saviours to American Superheroes and Back: Sofia Keeps Pace with the Times
21 June 2011 | Just four days after an anonymous graffiti artist transformed the Soviet Red Army monument in the centre of Sofia, turning it into a congregation of various comic-book characters Full Story
Bulgaria
Sklada: The Space that Stores and Showcases Contemporary Design
Bulgaria
Before and After: A Tango Milonga in the Midst of Sofia
Hidden Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Go Green in Bulgaria: 23 Eco-Hotels and Guest Houses to Choose From
Bulgaria's countryside is a pristine treasure. Poor and underdeveloped, many regions, with hills and valleys, mountains and gorges, have remained untouched for decades.
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Julian Perry's Walks in Bulgaria's National Parks
Bulgaria
From Sofia to the Village of Lakatnik in an Old Locomotive
Balkan Coasts & Mountains
Three Weekend Getaway Destinations in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Never spend a free day in a place you've already been is a rule many of us abide by – forcing us to take risky roads and end up in places we never knew existed, to get involved in conversations with strangers we never thought we'll be having one day.
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Perperikon, Bulgaria's Delphi: the Ancient City of Excessive Pleasures
Bulgaria: Strandzha's Mysteries
Balkan Towns
La Dolce Vita in Koprivshtitsa: Then and Now
Bulgaria
ldquo;What do you think? Koprishtitsa was a republic for centuries, without senates and ministers, without charters and presidents, ten times more liberal than the French, a hundred times more democratic than the American,” Zahari Stoyanov wrote in his Notes on the Bulgarian Uprisings at the end of the nineteenth century. Full Story
A City to Remember: Sofia in August
Plovdiv: A Felicitous Stop on the Orient Express Route
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Photogalleries
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A Perfect Shot
Koprivshtitsa Fair, Bulgara. Photographs by Neva Micheva
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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