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Bulgaria, a relatively new member of EU, is a country located at the crossroad between the East and the West, which makes it a very popular tourist destination for visitors from Persian Gulf, wrote the newspaper “Kuwait Times”. Besides breathta...

The 19th European Armwrestling Championship started in Sofia Wednesday night. 485 wrestlers from 28 European states are going to be competing in six categories: men, wo...

30 000 tourists visit the village of Shiroka Luka, Smolyan mountainous region each year, announced the chairman of the vil...

The project “The road of milk” will be carried out like “The road of wine” in Elzas. The project envisages to boost regional development in the mountainous area of the green Rhodopes Mountain and to turn it into an attractive touri...

“Scientific and technical heritage of Leonardo Da Vinci” – an exhibition of models and sketches will be officially opened today in Sofia’s National Library. The visitor c...

Prehistoric settlement, dating back to the second half of the sixth millenium B.C., was discovered during the construction activities of the camping site “Gradina” near the ...

About 500 000 German tourists are expected to visit Bulgaria this year as a serious decline of the tourist flow is not believed to occur according to the German Ambassador in Bulgaria. In his opinion, tourist agencies are advertising Bulgaria in the most proper...

A tourist center for EUR 2,6 M will be constructed at the site of the ancient Thracian city of Perperikon in Southern Bulgaria. The construction of the new tourist center will start and the end of June, and is financed by EU's PHARE Program, the top Bulgarian...

Bulgaria is going to see a dramatic increase in the visits of foreign tourists whose number will reach 30 million in 2020. This forecast has been made during a tourism forum in Sofia by Barbara Page-Roberts, a marketing consultant based in Nevada and Bulgaria, who i...

Summer tourism season 2009 will be officially opened in the resort of Irakli on the 13th of June. This year the resort participated in the competition EDEN 2009 for the most excellent tourist destination with regards to the protecte...

For the last several years, Bulgaria was the third preferred destination for Finnish tourists after Spain and Greece. The Finnish ambassador in Bulgaria Kauko Yamsen insists that Finnish tourists are just getting to know Bulgaria as a tourism destination of various op...

The newspaper Dnevnik announced that the municipality of Bansko plans to increase the lodging base of the resort over the years wi...

Kavarna will be the host of the 12th edition of National Festival of Amateur Theatres with international participation. The 12th edition of the festival will take place from the 30th of May until the 5th of June. The event will be under the patronage of the mayo...

The cabin lift from Bansko to Bunderishka Polyana will be functioning for the first time during the summer. The lift will be ope...

The municipality of Lovech will support the union “Devetashkoto plato” with 3000 euro, announced the mayor of Lovech Mincho Kazandzhiev. The project of the union won the financing of the Norwegian collaboration program - a total of 121 000 euro. The proj...

A golden ring with a pearl from 16th century and a unique coin dated back to the end of 17th century were discovered during the excavation works of the ancient Catholic church “The Assumption” in

This summer, a group of Russian tourists will have the opportunity to explore for the first time the archaeological complex of Perperikon. Russian hunters will be visiting the hunting station Zhenda near Kurdzhali town. Russian delegation will visit the town of Kur...

Bansko has been already pinned on the map of the modern European winter resorts, but the aim of local municipal representatives is...

Shoumen municipality will organize a series of events to mark 30 years since Madara Horseman was included in the list of the World Cultural and Historic landmarks. Festivities will be organized under the patronage of Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev. They will t...

The attractive estate sprawls over 50 thousand square metres and includes a subterranean parking lot, cinema, conference halls, offices, hotel complex and spa center. The auction for the military estate in the center of Sofia, also known as “the military NDK”, will b...