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Saturday, 04 July 2009

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Bulgaria
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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Epicure


Balkans
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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Bulgaria
Belogradchik: What Rocks May Come
Bulgaria
Kurdzhali: Where Men Trade in their Uniforms for Cassocks and the Town Clock Sings


Urban Browser


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.

But, as BalkanTravellers.com writer Ekaterina Petrova discovered, what makes the town truly picturesque Full Story

Bulgaria
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


Bulgaria
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

Bulgaria
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