The symbol of Easter - the egg dyed in red or other colors has also become a symbol of Bosilegrad. The Serbian town, just a stone's throw from the border with Bulgaria, is inhabited mainly by ethnic Bulgarians, who have been..
Holy Thursday is one of the two days in the Holy Week when we dye eggs for Easter. Tradition dictates that the oldest woman in the family takes on this important task, and the first egg is always dyed red. The Red Egg – symbol of the..
An egg-painting workshops is opening today in the garden of the former Knyazheski palace, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ National Ethnographic Museum has announced. The Museum is co-organizer of the event, alongside Sofia municipality...
On the occasion of the approaching holidays in early May, among which is the Orthodox Easter, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency will inspect for a month the establishments for production and trade with traditionally offered foods. This includes lamb..
Eggs imported into Bulgaria from Romania and Ukraine are being repackaged, re-dated and sold by Bulgarian traders as local produce. There are also imports of whole chickens which are declared as frozen thighs and then leave the transshipment points as..
According to the new regulation on the control of the movement of goods with a high fiscal risk, a large part of food products, including fruits and vegetables, are high-risk goods and are under special control by the tax authorities. Asked why this is..
In the midst of Easter, the municipality of Radomir organized the traditional competition for children "The Hardest Easter Egg" and the culinary competition "Red, Red Easter". Before lunch, in the park of the youth cultural and..
When Galina Manolova, a sixth-generation Bulgarian born in the village of Cairaclia, Moldova, published her account of an Easter egg game from her childhood , she never imagined the huge response it would provoke among Bulgarians around the..
To celebrate Easter, Burgas Zoo is displaying its collection of exotic wild bird and poultry eggs. The Burgas Zoo collection is the biggest in the country and can be used as a teaching aid. It includes all kinds of eggs - emu, tinamou,..
During the Holy Liturgy on Maundy Thursday in the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral in the city of Veliko Tarnovo, Metropolitan Gregory of Veliko Tarnovo blessed over 2,200 Easter eggs. Together with over 200 kozunaks, they will be..
