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2011/04/13 22:50:12

You can now fly directly to the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv. Jump at the chance, says Robert Nurden.

The sound of an aria from Verdi's Aida filled the sweltering Roman amphitheatre and hung in the hot night air. The audience fanned themselves with their programmes while a new moon edged above a distant mountain range.
As far as romantic settings go it was pretty spectacular. It could have been Verona's outdoor opera season, but rather than Italy, it was Bulgaria: the city of Plovdiv,...

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2011/04/11 18:23:05

A ritual change of a guard of honor in front of the mediaeval fortress Tsarevets in the old Bulgarian capital Veliko Tarnovo is going to be the latest attraction in the city this tourist season

The premiere of the 15-minute show is scheduled for 7:30 pm on April 15 as part of the program of the international expo "Culture Tourism," and after that it will be offered every weekend through the...

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2011/04/10 18:27:09

The "Palace" complex in the Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Balchik had 400 000 visitors in 2010, both Bulgarian and foreign tourists, according to its management.

Balchik's Palace is a complex built in 1924 by Queen Maria of Romania at a time when the region of Southern Dobrudzha was part of Romania (1918-1940).

It was subsequently integrated with the Balchik Botanical Garden to become one of the most famous...

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2011/04/08 17:29:03

The American ambassador in Bulgaria James Warlick visited the Architectural-ethnographic complex Etura, Gabrovo while his visit to the Nature Park Bulgarka.

The reason for Warlick’s visit in the region of the town of Gabrovo was the celebration of the Week of the Forests.

The American ambassador planted a white pine which is one of the natural coniferous tree types in the region of the National Park...

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2011/04/08 15:10:33

A Museum of Astronautics will be situated in the future building of a school in the Kamchiya complex, near the city of Varna.

A planetarium, an Aviation and Astronautics Museum and a real simulator will be part of the future school building.

The first dig of the future school building was made as a celebration of the anniversary of the Yuri Gagarin’s first university flight. On 12th of April it will be 50 years since his flight in the cosmos.

The first Bulgarian astronaut Georgi...

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2011/04/07 12:12:20

The first tourists who visited the town of Belogradchik this year are Americans and Canadians.

Four groups with more than 100 tourists will arrive in the town until the end of April. Tourists come to Vidin with boats through the Danube river and then take buses to reach Belogradchik.

The “town of rocks” has been...

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2011/04/06 11:09:37

The Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry expects a rise in European tourists who visit Bulgarian summer resorts. There will be an increase of 15%-18% in Italian tourists in the country during summer 2011, Evelin Videnov the vice president of the chamber said.

Recently there was an international Bulgarian-Italian tourist forum. The two countries discussed opportunities of cooperation in this business branch. Bulgarian government considers to organize other forums with Austria, Poland and...

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2011/04/06 11:42:37

Bulgaria is expecting a record number of tourist visa applications from Russia for the summer of 2011, according to the Bulgarian Consulate in Moscow.

The Consulate also says it expects the summer season to begin earlier than usual - end of April or beginning of May.

Since January 2011, over 21,000 applications have been filed which is a 50% increase with respect to the same period in 2010 and a 100% increase with respect to 2009.

According to data of the Bulgarian Council in Moscow,...

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2011/04/06 13:40:27

The first part of the route starts from Buhovo, passes through Kremikovtzi, Podgumer and reaches Kurilo. It includes generally 9 monasteries and 14 churches.

Pedestrian route and bike paths will connect 120 churches and monasteries around Sofia, said Tzvetelina Borislavova from Credo Bonum foundation.

“The idea about this route came from Santiago de Compostela in Spain called “The culture route of Europe”. I аm looking for а different presentation – through ancient...

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2011/04/05 15:54:37

Among the attractive and luxurious old trains the company will offer tourists those used by former Bulgarian Tzar Boris III and communist dictator Todor Zhivkov. There has been a considerable interest in the country's retro train tours and the Bulgarian State railway company (BDZ) expects to double their number in 2011, Tsvetkov stated.

The state company has earned some BGN 60 000 in 2010 from retro train tourism, the Minister pointed out, adding it plans to make 2.5 times as much in...

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