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2011/01/14

Sandanski Municipality and the Association of Hotel and Restaurant Keepers and Tour Operators develop tourist information map of the Bulgarian town of Sandanski, reported Viara daily.

The map will include information about hotels, business contacts and other useful information. The municipality and the association aim to facilitate tourists during their visits in Sandanski.

The initiators prognosticate that the tourist map will be ready before summer season 2011.

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2011/01/13

Kosharitsa village, near Nessebar will host the first edition of the Festival of the homemade sausage.

The festival will start early in the morning with a culinary exhibition at the central part of the village.

Kosharitsa village is not a random choice for the event. The village is located on a small hill, overlooking the Black sea and the locals are famous for being connoisseurs of the meat specialties and gather traditional Bulgarian recipes.

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2011/01/11

Bansko will host a round of the Biathlon European cup 10th to 12ed February, Klasa daily reported.

Tourists will visit free the competition and most probably they will pay discount prices for the cabin lift.

Currently, 210 biathloners from 26 countries confirmed their participation in the round. Among them are participants from Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Belarus, Croatia and UK. Bulgaria will be presented by 13 men and 13 women.

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2011/01/10

English rock musician John Lawton, who is former Uriah Heep vocalist, has arrived to the southern Bulgarian town of Chepelare to continue filming his documentary movies about Bulgarian cities and towns, the local administration announced.

According to the information, the rock musician had already visited Mount Mechi Chal and the sports center in the town.

In December 2008, Lawton entered the world of television by presenting the Bulgarian travel documentary series "John Lawton...

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2011/01/10

The 4-star Sol Luna Bay Hotel in Obzor beach resort is the only bulgarian hotel, included in the annual ranking of the Holiday Check Award 2010.
99 hotels from all over the globe took place in the classification.
Guests have given 5.3 average rating to the 4-star All Inclusive Sol Luna Bay. The ranking is based on a total of 308 thousand reviews given by tourists after their stay in the...

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2011/01/10

World’s largest travel site TripAdvisor ranks best hotels in the Bulgarian ski resort of Bansko according to foreign tourists’ vote.

A total amount of 82 hotels are included in the chart for Bansko. Three stars hotel Avalon and Lucky Bansko Aparthotel alternated with each other. Kempinski Hotel Grand Arena is ranked after hem.

TripAdvisor includes over 35 million positive and negative...

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2011/01/07

Euronews will broadcast eight-minute clips about Sofia and Plovdiv and tourism and entertainment facilities the two cities offer. The short feature films will be shown total 28 times on the information giant till the end of January. They were produced as part of a project of Bulgaria’s Ministry of Economy, funded on Regional Development Operational Programme. The clips are intended for the specialized Metropolitans programme and can also be seen on the TV channel’s internet site.

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2011/01/06

The Baba Vida fortress and the Jewish synagogue in Vidin city on the Danube river will be restored, announced the regional governor Plamen Stefanov. The projects plan to position special art lighting by the two sites.

The municipality continue working over projects for improvement of the infrastracture in the town. They also aim to attract investors for the gasification of the town.

The ambassador of Norway will visit Vidin on 25th January. The majour topic of the visit will be the...

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2011/01/06

Bulgaria Air has announced it is increasing the number of flights between Sofia and the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas.

Starting January 10, the Bulgarian national airline will perform 12 flights a week between the two cities.

There will be two flights a day from Monday to Friday, with the new one being before noon.

The price of a one-way ticket starts at EUR 15.

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2011/01/04

The Sun ranks Bulgaria in ninth place among top 10 value places. According to the newspaper Bulgaria offers cheap food and drink and good value lodgings, but the infrastructure is on an initial stage of development.

Spain is ranked first because of weak euro and low prices, Turkey is second and Morocco is third.

The Sun includes in the chart also USA, Tunisia, Iceland, Egypt and Portugal. Kenya ranks at 10th place after Bulgaria.

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