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| updated on 8/22/19 2:54 PM


The first electric scooters for shared usage were presented in Sofia today. There are 150 scooters at the disposal of the citizens of the capital city and 58 parking sites in the broad center of Sofia. The number of parking areas for bicycles and scooters is to grow to 200, Sofia Mayor Yodanka Fandakova informed.  Photo: BGNES


In days with no strong wind, Bulgaria’s surf center – the resort village of Lozenets offers perfect conditions for the very popular lately Standup paddleboard (SUP). Photo: BTA


Chocolate bars, telling on their wrapping the stories of three of the emblematic streets in the artistic Kapana quarter in Plovdiv, as well as coffee cups decorated with a 360-degree panorama of architectural sites of that city, are among the most successful souvenirs from the series “Take Plovdiv Home”. The designer series of the “Studio Complect” PR agency contains another half a dozen of original souvenirs under the same project. They are made by artists from different spheres of arts and are all dedicated to the year in which Plovdiv meets its guests as European Capital of Culture.  Photos: @Lina Krivoshieva, “Studio Complect”


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