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author: Gergana Mancheva

Golden autumn in village of Dzhuliunitsa comes with festival of traditional meals

The pretty village of Dzhuliunitsa (Veliko Tarnovo district) is brimming with abundance in autumn. The village gardens are covered with fruit. Local gardeners contend that the most delicious peppers and tomatoes grow there. You only need to..

05.09.17 16:41 |

Maria Terzyiska, Nadya Murdzheva – two ‘golden girls’ of children’s folklore choreography

The price of success for one of the ‘golden girls’ of Bulgarian rhythmic gymnastics means a lot of work, training and gathering of precious experience through time. The success would be unthinkable without the power of love in the souls of the..

30.08.17 14:11 |

Black Sea’s Pomorie – a historical place to revisit

The town of Pomorie is situated some 20 km away from Burgas. Every Bulgarian has heard the song of Nedyalko Yordanov named A Family Memory of Pomorie and whoever has visited the place would love to return there. It simply has it all –..

29.08.17 11:45 |

The people of Ovchartsi village believe the Virgin Mary protects them from misfortunes and natural calamities

The 15 th of August is Assumption Day, a feast particularly venerated across the Bulgarian lands, connected with the Mother of God – patroness of childbirth, of motherhood and the giving of life. In towns and villages where there is a church or a..

15.08.17 11:07 |

Staro Zhelezare – the village with a spatter of artistic “augmented reality”

In the village of Staro Zhelezare near Plovdiv, life used to be no different to life in any other village in Bulgaria. People here would rise before daybreak to tend to the stock and take the cows and the sheep out to graze. Then the people who..

06.08.17 08:00 |

Debate on coping with poverty cannot be replaced by length of service bonuses subject

Cost of living in Bulgaria has been going up over the past months and the poverty of the majority of people has been boosting, a report of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria /CITUB/ shows. ‘Incomes and any possibilities..

21.07.17 14:54 |

Honouring St. Marina as an element of life and tradition in Botevo village

Not far from Botevo village, 30 kilometers to the East of Dobrich and 35 to the North of Varna, in a locality where medicinal water flows from what is known as the Marina spring, rise the white walls of the St. Marina monastery. According to..

17.07.17 14:50 |
Part of the team of I Awake Bulgaria

I Awaken Bulgaria – change starts with us

In 2014 the labour ministry decided to allocate some EUR 500 mln to the opening of new jobs and for providing better employment to people, aged up to 29. The funds under the Human Resources Development OP were expected to support the qualification and..

12.07.17 14:00 |

Memory of Khan Kubrat and his Old Great Bulgaria

We live almost 1,370 years after the death of Khan Kubrat – the person who established the Bulgarian statehood. Back in the 7th c. he unified the proto-Bulgarians in a military-tribal union, named Great Bulgaria. Its territory spread over the..

11.07.17 15:01 |
Stoyanka Pouhleva, Georgi Nedelchev and Petka Zhekova

“No one is bigger than bread” – Thrace sings the end of harvest

“Do you know, my love, the feast is coming to Streltsi village, when harvest is over, when the wheat is in the barn, a big feast is coming to our pretty village,” – the refrain in this folk song marks the end of harvest time every year in one..

05.07.17 14:27 |