In 2017 a total of 57 175 babies were born in Bulgaria. This way Bulgaria has marked a record-low birth rate for the whole period after 1945. In the period January 2017 to January 2018, babies born in this country were nearly 8,000 less than in 2016...
Short city breaks to Sofia, Plovdiv and Veliko Turnovo are up by 25 percent over the past year, the Association of Bulgarian Tour O perators and Travel Agents, (ABTTA) says. In the past 2-3 years Sofia has been growing increasingly popular..
The 23rd "Golden Rhyton" Documentary and Animation Film Festival starts in Plovdiv this evening with Oscar-nominated film "Blind Vaysha" by Theodor Ushev and the premiere of a documentary about Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov. The festival continues..
The Municipality of Plovdiv plans to buy back the Roman Forum of Philippopolis at a price almost four times higher than the one it got when it sold it in 2003. The local government has voted to pay 4.3 million leva (2.15 million euro) for the..
Bulgaria has presented the Episcopal Basilica of Philippopolis and the Antiquity mosaics of Plovdiv to a large audience from different countries at the UNESCO head offices in Paris. With its 2000 square meters of Antiquity mosaics dated to..
In the presence of Emma Hopkins, the British Ambassador to Bulgaria, a ceremony was held in the Central Cemetery in memory of 56 British soldiers buried there during the First World War. In front of their memorial plaques poppies were placed. This is..
The latest edition of the Technical Fair in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv will be held in the period September 25-30. More than 600 exhibitors from nearly 40 countries take part in the fair, as some of the participants present sensational inventions turned..
Bulgaria’s second-largest city Plovdiv hosts between September 8 and 10 the 12 th Balkan Congress of Human Genetics and Genomics. The 8th National Conference for Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs is held simultaneously in that Bulgarian city. Over 350..
The Italian travel blog www.girandolina.it , which is in the Top 100 of travel blogs in the world, is inviting tourists to go and visit Plovdiv in Bulgaria, Plovdiv municipality has announced. At the invitation of the town council, the..
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov will be following closely the execution of measures aimed at calming tensions in the Romani neighborhood of Sheker Mahala in the city of Plovdiv this evening, authorities reported. The visit to Plovdiv..
