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| updated on 4/1/20 3:35 PM


The town of Gabrovo, central Bulgaria – the Bulgarian capital of humour. For the first time in many years the place shows no mood of joking April-1st humour!  Photo: BTA



In the sky over Sofia, one of the only two planes to land at Sofia Airport today. The plane was caught in the frame of the golden domes of St. Alexander Nevski Cathedral. Photo: BTA


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