News June, 2007

2007/06/20

This summer, a team of Bulgarian archaeologists will search for proofs to the thesis that Vratsa was the capital of the Tribali tribe where generations of Thracian rulers lived. The excavations will start in the region of Vratsata pass where the experts expect to find a 2,800-year-old settlement. If their hypothesis is proven true, they will disprove the widespread assumption that Vratsa was founded by the Slavs in 6th century AD.

The town will become as famous as Troy or the Valley of Kings,...

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2007/06/20

A total of 73,000 tourists visited the Old Bulgarian capital, the city of Veliko Turnovo (Central Bulgaria) in the first six months of 2007.
The statistics say that almost 24,000 visitors went sigh seeing in Veliko Turnovo from January to March, 2007.

In the next 3 months (April - June) nearly 49,300 tourists visited the city.

Considering the tourism visits for the year till now, the expectations are that the interest to Veliko Turnovo, compared to 2006 will be...

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2007/06/20

The perfume called ‘Palazzo' was presented in Fendi's head office in the centre of Rome Author of the perfume is Francois Demachy.

Except for the traditional Bulgarian savior, ‘Palazzo' contains also essences from orange blossoms, tangerine, bergamot, lemon, pink pepper and jasmine.

Fendi was purchased a couple of years ago from the French stylish monster LVMH.

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2007/06/19

After a very serious delay of seven years the construction of a second bridge over the river Danube spanning the Bulgarian city of Vidin and the Romanian, Calafat, has finally been launched. The facility will be part of the European transport corridor number 4 acting as a bridge between Central Europe and the Thessalonica port on the Aegean Sea in Greece and also a pre-requisite for enhancing the economic ties not only in the region of the Balkans, but also along the entire stretch of the...

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2007/06/19

They are no more dancing bears in Bulgaria, informed from ‘Four Paws' foundation.

Just like in the Wild Wild West, you can find all kinds of wild animals in the bigger Bulgarian cities...but not any more.

One interesting tame animal - the dancing bear becomes extinct specie. Some people had invented a strange way to earn money: learning bears to dance.

After the animals learn the dancing steps they go out on the streets, directed by a chain pierced by their lips or nose, hold by...

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