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2010/09/17

For the sixth consecutive year, Plovdiv welcomes art lovers from around Bulgaria to its annual Night of Museums and Galleries. Following the overwhelming popularity of the event in previous editions, the program this year is organized in two days – 24 and 25 September (Friday and Saturday), starting at 7.00 p.m. on each of the days and closing at 1.00 in the morning.

There are three main programs to choose from: Museums and Galleries (on 24 September), Culture at Large (on 25 September) –...

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2010/09/17

Bulgaria's capital celebrates Friday St. Sofia Day - the date when the Orthodox world pays homage to the Holy Martyrs Sofia and her three daughters Faith, Hope and Love.

The September 17, 2010 events dedicated to the Day of Sofia will be opened with a parade starting at 11 am from the "Zaimov" park in downtown Sofia.

The flag of the capital will be hoisted at an official ceremony and a liturgy will be held in front of St. Sofia church.

Beginning at 7 pm, at the National "Ivan...

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2010/09/09

Sailors from 6 countries will compete in Bulgaria

The 43rd Sailing Championship started in Bourgas yesterday. 200 participants from Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey and Moldova marched along the central street in Bourgas.
They will compete in 6 Olympic classes for the next three days.

The guests and residents of Bourgas will be able to observe the competition from the bridge, as the event is taking place close to the central beach.

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2010/09/08

Russian Investment funds show increased and growing interest in Bulgarian SPA centers both on the Black Sea coast and inside the country.

The information was reported by the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) Tuesday, citing the President of the Bulgarian branch of the international real estate federation FIABCI, who said Russian investors are inquiring about possibility to purchase entire complexes at once.

According to the President, this a a new trend to replace individual private Russian...

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2010/09/03

Traveling between Russia and the EU should be made as easy as possible as part of the transition to a visa-free regime, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

"We should move to a visa-free regime together with our European colleagues, since the majority of the partners in Europe support this idea," Putin said at a meeting with students at the Siberian Federal University in the eastern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Several EU states reject the idea, mainly for political...

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2010/09/02

Olga Andreevna, who arrived at Burgas Airport on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast Saturday night 22.27 EET from Moscow, turned out to be the airport's 1,500,000th passenger for 2010.

This year Burgas airport welcomed its 1 millionth and 1.5 millionth passenger within one month.

On August 4 23-year-old German Eileen Nischik flying in from Cologne became Burgas Airport’s millionth passenger.

Russian traveler Andreevna came to Burgas Saturday night with her husband and little daughter for a...

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2010/09/01

The 6th edition of PUPPET FAIR will take place from 16 – 22 September 2010 in Sofia. Over 30 troupes from Bulgaria and abroad (20 theaters from Russia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Poland, Holland, South Korea, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, France and Israel) will take part in the “PUPPET FAIR – 2010”.

The international puppet theatre festival PUPPET FAIR – SOFIA presents a varied international program of children and youth performances for different age and social groups. The festival has already...

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2010/08/31

The 7th edition of the unique Fish and Mussel Festival will take place from 10 – 12 September 2010.

Traditionally the seafood delicacies will be accompanied with beer, a lot of music events and unforgettable party emotions. The festival will be attended by master-chefs from the country and abroad.

The Fish and Mussel Festival is one of the biggest summer tourist attractions of Kavarna Black sea resort.

This year the event will offer great music shows starting on 10 September with a...

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2010/08/31

A 4th century Roman tomb that is one of the most valuable archeological sites in Silistra, north-eastern Bulgaria, is being reopened to the public for the first time in 20 years.

The tomb will remain open for visitors until the end of September 2010.

The tomb is known for its unique murals and flamboyant frescoes that reflect the transition from ancient to early medieval Byzantine art. It is believed to be the tomb of a Roman magistrate and his wife.

To preserve the murals, the...

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2010/08/27

The 115-th anniversary of organized hiking in Bulgaria will be marked this Sunday at the Cherni Vrah summit in the Vitosha mountain nearby capital Sofia.

The first hiking and tourist society in Bulgaria was founded on August 27, 1895 by Bulgarian writer and nature-lover Aleko Konstantinov on the top of Cherni Vrah (2290 m). The society transformed into the present Bulgarian Tourist Union, and the anniversary of its founding is marked yearly on the last Sunday of August.

A couple of days...

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