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Bulgaria
The Bulgarian Connections
Bulgaria celebrated its National Day on March 3. In a rare patriotic act, Ekaterina Petrova – a Bulgarian-born, self-described non-patriot and resident of anywhere the wind blows, found out about the things, people and events the small Balkan country is associated with around the world Full Story
Epicure
Bulgaria
Pumpkin head!
If you wish to insult somebody in Bulgarian, you could call him tikvenik – a word whose Full Story
News
Bulgaria
Unique Archaeology Site Discovered During Metro Construction in Bulgaria’s Capital
17 March 2010 | A medieval church was stumbled upon by accident on Monday during the construction of the second metro line in downtown Sofia. Full Story
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Danube Cruise Company Finds Ways to Extend Season
Bulgaria
Bulgaria: Archaeologists Finally Put Date on Ancient Starosel Tomb
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
The Turkish Café: A Place for Sweet Tea, Salty Snacks and Long Chats
A presence in Sofia’s student city (‘Studentski grad’) for several years, the place is actually called Dilgün - Simit Sarayı. Full Story
Bulgaria
The Flea Market in Malashevtsi: From Communist Rebellion to Memorabilia
Bulgaria
Panta Rei at Adams Bar
Hidden Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Julian Perry's Walks in Bulgaria's National Parks
Julian Perry, author of Walking in Bulgaria’s National Parks, describes three of his most loved routes through the Bulgarian mountains for the readers of BalkanTravellers.com. His book was published by Cicerone press last month. Full Story
Bulgaria
From Sofia to the Village of Lakatnik in an Old Locomotive
Bulgaria
Go Green in Bulgaria: 23 Eco-Hotels and Guest Houses to Choose From
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
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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