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2010/05/14

The majority of the Bulgarians going on a vacation during the May holidays have preferred the home sea and mountain resorts to foreign destinations.

According to preliminary data of the Bulgarian Association of Tourist Agencies, 70% of those using the four days off around May 6 have decided to say in Bulgarian, and only 30% have headed abroad. In comparison, in 2009, only about 40% of the Bulgarian tourists taking the chance to travel in May stayed in the country.

One of the top Bulgarian...

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2010/05/14

All construction in resorts near Bulgaria's Black sea capital Varna is banned, beginning May 15, over the opening of the summer season.

The order was issued Tuesday by the Mayor of Varna, Kiril Yordanov.

According to the order, all unfinished sites must be secured, cleaned and cultivated while construction waste must also be removed by May 15, during the hours of 8 am and 10 am and 4 pm and 8 pm.

Violators will be fined up to BGN 10 000.

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2010/05/13

Craftsmen from Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece show their skills during the first international crafts fair, which was opened yesterday in Plovdiv.
Participants will demonstrate hand techniques for glass, iron and copper articles, as well as jewelry, embroidery work, pottery, aroma soaps and etc.

The craftsmen who worked over the clothes and shoes for the films “Troja” and “Harry Potter”. A special exhibition “Violine majic”, will show the instruments made by the luthiers from Kazanlak.
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2010/05/13

The Bulgarian movement “Blue Flag” announced that the international jury of the program “Blue Flag” praised 2884 beaches and 627 yacht ports in the northern hemisphere.

The Bulgarian movement “Blue Flag” announced that 11 of the Bulgarian beaches have received the honourable prize. These are the beaches in Albena, Sunny Day, Elenite, New beach and central beach in Sveti Vlas, Sunny Beach – north, Sunny Beach – south, Pomorie – east, Sozopol – Harmanite and Duni, as well as the yacht port...

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2010/05/12

Artmospheric Festival 2010 will take place from 21st till 24th of May, at a new location - the road to the old querries above Vladaya village, an area within Vitosha Natural Park, Bulgaria.

On Friday 21st, our host will be Sofia Dub Club's ambient tea house providing the best artmospheric introduction.

The main stage, powered by a state-of-the-art Funktion-One sound system, will be open from Saturday afternoon. A long line-up of artists from India, UK, Italy, Macedonia, Bulgaria and more...

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2010/05/12

The eighth festival of the Strandzha Rhododendron gathered over 700 guests, the festival bears the name of the unique for the region shrub, which blossoms in May and June and was accepted as a symbol of the mountain.
The festival takes place ever since 2003 in different parts of the mountain.

This year the organizers from the direction of the natural park and the Bulgarian foundation “Biodivercity” chose the site “Tulpan” over the Zabernovo village in the protected site “Paroria”. Following...

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2010/05/11

Diplomats from different countries will arrive in Stara Zagora, invited by the regional governor Iordan Nikolov. The ambassadors will attend the start of the national project “The birth of Europe History and Reality”, which is being organized in cooperation with the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency to popularize the Neolithic homes in Stara Zagora.

The main goal of the event is to show the “Neolithic homes” to Europe and to mark the site on the international map of the culture tourism.

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2010/05/11

The hotels along the upper float of Arda River were completely occupied during the holidays, announced the mayor of Arda village – Emil Bashev.

The hotels for eco and rural tourism in the region of Arda, Mogilitsa and Smilyan marked a rise in the number of tourists. The guests of the hotels are mainly Bulgarians.
Some of the most popular activities were trekking in the mountain, horseback riding, alpine downhill by a rope in the canyons.

Despite the crisis in the tourism industry,...

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2010/05/11

Bulgaria attracts tourists form Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania with attractive prices and excellent service.

The Greek tourists are a real surprise for the start of the new summer season in Sunny Beach, announced Elena Ivanova, head of the Alliance of the owners of hotels and complexes in the resort.

The early bookings for the present year mark a slight rise, compared to the previous year and the mangers of the complex expect a good summer season.

The hoteliers found the right...

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2010/05/11

Solomon Passy - Bulgarian politician and foreign minister (2001-2005) handed to US astronaut Marsha Ivins a phial with rose oil. She promised the phial would reach the international space station and would get into orbit. "The voice of Valya Balkanska (singer of traditional Bulgarian folklore songs) is rambling in the space, but we haven't sent yet Bulgarian wine and computers," Solomon Passy joked.

Marsha Ivins delivered a lecture "Life and Work in Space - Today and in Future". "If we want...

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