Project and main goal: BG16RFOP002-2.092: “Support to companies registered under the Tourism Act as a tour operator or a travel agent to overcome the economic consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic” Beneficiary: Zig Zag Holidays Total amount: BGN 5525,84, of which 85% European funding: BGN 4696,97 […]
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Sofia is perhaps an exception to the unwritten rule that every great city should be located either at sea or near a major river. Bulgaria’s capital has a rare advantage, though: within an hour you can leave behind the noise and bustle of downtown and be […]
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So far, more than 4,500 have been discovered and mapped. The number is so high because 22 percent of the country is covered with karst, a topography created when water soaks, dissolves, and carves sedimentary rocks, mainly limestone, dolomite, and marble. Over millennia, the water shapes […]
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In winter, as anyone who has ever spent this season in Sofia knows, it is super easy to complain about life in Bulgaria’s largest city. Air pollution peaks. The notoriously bad pavements become even more impassable because of snow, or ice, or mud, or rainwater, or […]
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The waitress in the café approaches the table, carrying a tray with two small cups of steaming Turkish coffee. Then she stops nearby and starts spinning the tray round and round in the air, the cups rapidly turning upside down. You might think that she has […]
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They measure the passage of time and the heartbeat of the city. They are an institution and a mark of civilization. The city clocks still tick away in their public places around the city, reminding people that the duration of the second is the same as […]
0 Read MoreTrapped in a house in the village of Sarmashik, which was still part of the Ottoman Empire back in April 1903, a small group of Bulgarians was wondering what fate would bring in the next few hours. Rebel leader Pano Angelov and his men had been […]
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Authentic traditional food is one of the strongest impressions a country and a culture left to the visitor. Bulgarian culinary tradition is one of those who quickly win new fans. Created in the span of centuries, while absorbing foreign influences and building up its own traditions, […]
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When we talk about Bulgarian cities that stick in the mind, Ruse is inevitably among the first to pop up. This is well deserved. Bulgaria’s biggest city on the Danube offers something you won’t find anywhere else in this country. Located on the steep riverbank, Ruse […]
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