News October, 2008

2008/10/20

Religious tourism was the accent of the Black Sea Tourism Forum in Varna. “Religious Tourism: Monasteries-the image of Bulgarian spirit” was the topic of the forum. The event took place from 16th till 18th of October.
Metropolitan Kirill, the deputy mayor of Varna municipality – Svilen Kraichev, the chairman of the Tourism chamber in Varna – Marin Neshkov and the vice-chairman of the State Tourism Agency – Stela Baltova, were the participants in the opening conference.
Marin Neshkov...

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2008/10/17

Everybody who happens to visit the imposing building of Societe Generale in Paris, situated in the modern La Defance area, can't remain indifferent to the works of art inhabiting the whole space.

Modern and provocative, they tickle the senses and inspire a more dynamic contemporary way of communication.

The collection was initiated in 1995. The original idea of using the newly bought works for decorating offices and conference halls soon developed further and after 2003 the...

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2008/10/16

Pirin Golf Club hosted the 2008 State National Golf Championships, where the best of Bulgarian golfers competed for this prestigious title.
The 18 holes were played over the established Ian Woosnam 9 -hole design and the newer Pines course which threads its way in and out of the forest - two very different nine-hole layouts that tested the competitors’ skills.

Weather conditions could not have been better with hardly a breeze stirring the air. The format of the competition was singles...

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2008/10/14

Archaeologists have discovered the Bulgarian copy of the Virgin Mary at the excavations of the unique necropolis discovered by the village of Nissovo near Rousse on the Danube. The expedition is led by the archaeologist Templar, Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov. The sensational finding is the medieval burial of a mother and a child. The bodies were laid to resemble those of the Virgin Mary and Infant as usually depicted on icons. Archaeologists and historians say this has been the first such discovery in...

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2008/10/09

A team of Bulgarian archaeologists discovered Wednesday unique mosaics from Byzantine times during excavation works in the town of Kyustendil.

The beautiful findings, which are drawn mainly with geometrical figures, once tiled the floors of official halls in a Byzantine private house, the experts reported.

"The names of the home's owners are written on the mosaics and it is the first time when such artifacts have been discovered in Bulgaria," the chief archaeologist Rumen Spasov...

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