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2008/10/21

Tomorrow 22 October 2009: The Palace of Culture and Sports in Varna will host the opening of the "European Champoinship in Kickbox Varna 2008".
The championship is for men and women and will be in 4 days - from 22 to 25 October.
The Bulgarian Kickbox and Muay Thie Federation organizes the event.

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2008/10/20

Sofia airport has been granted a 3A category, meaning that airplanes could land with a visibility a slow as 200 meters.

The news was announced by Bulgaria's Transport Minister Petar Mutafchiev Sunday. Mutafchiev participated in the presentation of the military "Albatross F2" plane in the village of Chernogorovo.The plane is a replica of the plane used by the Bulgarian Army during the Balkan War. On October 16, 1912, "Albatross F2" realized one of the first flights in the world when an...

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2008/10/20

Religious tourism was the accent of the Black Sea Tourism Forum in Varna. “Religious Tourism: Monasteries-the image of Bulgarian spirit” was the topic of the forum. The event took place from 16th till 18th of October.
Metropolitan Kirill, the deputy mayor of Varna municipality – Svilen Kraichev, the chairman of the Tourism chamber in Varna – Marin Neshkov and the vice-chairman of the State Tourism Agency – Stela Baltova, were the participants in the opening conference.
Marin Neshkov...

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2008/10/17

Everybody who happens to visit the imposing building of Societe Generale in Paris, situated in the modern La Defance area, can't remain indifferent to the works of art inhabiting the whole space.

Modern and provocative, they tickle the senses and inspire a more dynamic contemporary way of communication.

The collection was initiated in 1995. The original idea of using the newly bought works for decorating offices and conference halls soon developed further and after 2003 the...

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2008/10/16

Pirin Golf Club hosted the 2008 State National Golf Championships, where the best of Bulgarian golfers competed for this prestigious title.
The 18 holes were played over the established Ian Woosnam 9 -hole design and the newer Pines course which threads its way in and out of the forest - two very different nine-hole layouts that tested the competitors’ skills.

Weather conditions could not have been better with hardly a breeze stirring the air. The format of the competition was singles...

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2008/10/14

Archaeologists have discovered the Bulgarian copy of the Virgin Mary at the excavations of the unique necropolis discovered by the village of Nissovo near Rousse on the Danube. The expedition is led by the archaeologist Templar, Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov. The sensational finding is the medieval burial of a mother and a child. The bodies were laid to resemble those of the Virgin Mary and Infant as usually depicted on icons. Archaeologists and historians say this has been the first such discovery in...

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2008/10/09

A team of Bulgarian archaeologists discovered Wednesday unique mosaics from Byzantine times during excavation works in the town of Kyustendil.

The beautiful findings, which are drawn mainly with geometrical figures, once tiled the floors of official halls in a Byzantine private house, the experts reported.

"The names of the home's owners are written on the mosaics and it is the first time when such artifacts have been discovered in Bulgaria," the chief archaeologist Rumen Spasov...

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2008/10/09

The development of a project for local improvement of “Strandzha” gathered expert mission of foreign and Bulgarian representatives.

Tatiana Rener from Slovenia, Terry O’Reegan from Ireland, experts from the European Council, and Mr. Peter Miladinov – from the Ministry of culture are on a working visit to work over the long term strategy for development of the area.

The project is developed after the regional program of the European Council for cultural and natural inheritance in...

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2008/10/09

The archeologist Mirko Robov found an unknown so far monogram during the exploration of the South fortified wall of the Trapezitsa hill.

The inscription is completely preserved. It is glazed and decorated. There is written a capital “T” and also “C”, “Y”, “Д”, “П” and “Н”. It partly looks like the monogram of St. Teodosii of Tarnovo, partiarh of Bulgaria during the Second Bulgarian Empire. He used such monograms to sign his works, explained Mirko Robov. He claims that at the...

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2008/10/09

The team of Professor Nikolay Ovcharov found a Medieval graveyard from XV-XVII century near the Rousse village Nisovo, BNR announced. The interesting fact is that by examining the remains of the buried people one can identify their job. Judging by the discovered objects in the graveyard the skeletons belong to a barber, a baker and a priest. In a number of excavated lots there are skeletons of 3 and 4-year old children, which most probably testify of a medieval epidemic of a deadly...

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