News July, 2008

2008/07/18

The Swedish furniture company IKEA will open one of its largest stores in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in the second half of 2009.

The news was reported by the Bulgarian newspaper Pari Daily, which cites the Greek publication Imersia.

The Greek company Froulis, which is IKEA's authorized licensee in the region, is planning to open three furniture stores in the Balkans in 2009, and a total of 11-12 IKEA stores by 2013, two of which will be located in Bulgaria.

In February, Froulis signed...

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2008/07/18

CNN International will include Bulgaria in its Sights & Sounds online and TV advertising campaign as it seeks to build on the existing Bulgarian tourism TV advertising campaign on the channel, the broadcaster said in a statement.

Bulgaria tourism’s Sights & Sounds campaign was launched live to a global audience via CNN’s television feed for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, as well as its international website, cnn.com/international, on March 10.
The TV elements are built around the...

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2008/07/17

Veliko Tarnovo is hosting the XI International Folklore Festival, which starts on 19 July and continues till 02 August. This year the event will gather 16 international ensembles. As a tradition they will stage in open at Marno Pole City Park.

For first time so far groups from Malta, Uzbekistan and Ecuador will take place in the fest. There will also be participants from India, Russia, Thailand and Costa Rica. Last year the favourites from Costa Rica performed a song, which later became the...

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2008/07/17

A Stage of 3,000 Straw Bales to be built at 2,190 meters for Leviev's concert


Bulgarian jazz musician Milcho Leviev again will be on top. He will play with Plovdiv Big Band on July 19 on Perelik peak in the Rhodopes where a unique facility will be built for better acoustics. The special wall won't be built with conventional construction materials but with bales of straw arranged as a chessboard. Workers are calculating that about 3,000 bales will be needed to assemble the sound...

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2008/07/17

Sozopol is considered the oldest town along in Bulgaria with 2700 years old history. This was announced by Mr. Bozhidar Dimitrov, head of the National History Museum, who was born in Sozopol.
Sozopol (Apollonia) was a town – state, model of the ancient Greek democracy. Apollonia was the biggest and richest town on the Black sea coast, a centre of busy trade and art for 600 years. By the beginning of the Ist century BC, Apollonia became part of the Roman Empire. After Rome's dissolution Sozopol...

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