Thousands of cowbells of different sizes and shapes filled the streets of Yambol with chiming, jingling and ringing at the 25th International Masquerade Festival "Kukerlandia". Згдшд More than two thousand mummers - called kukeri, sourvakari,..
Martenitsas are one of the symbols of Bulgaria – regarded as the harbinger of spring and the end of darkness. Every year, on 1 March, Bulgarians, wherever they may be in the world, give friends and family the red-and-white tassels, as a token of..
On New Year’s eve there is one thing all people in Bulgaria put on the table – banitsa with lucky charms. Banitsa is made of filo pastry with filling in between the pastry sheets made of cheese, eggs and butter. Different kinds of meat can be..
The village of Asenovo, Nikopol region, is preparing for the festival "Banat gastronomical delights - the traditions of my village" to be held on August 12, BTA reports. The traditional gathering brings together people who preserve and protect..
The name of the Bulgarian Irenе Velichkova-Yamami is mostly associated with her long-term research on embroidery , which has been perfected over the centuries and has turned from a widespread craft in the past into a valuable art form in the present..
For centuries the coming of the New Year has been one of the most important moments in Bulgarian tradition. It is more than a change of digits on the calendar, it is a borderline that has to be crossed, and it is crossed with a series of rituals and..
What changes occurred in Bulgarian wedding traditions after the Liberation in 1878? How does the city, as a centre of attraction for a new type of life, changed weddings, as well ? What did socialism bring to the tradition of weddings in the..
Translucent, delicate, made out of fantasy and love – the lace from the town of Koprivshtitsa, with its intricate ornamentation, used to be an element of all traditional clothing and household fabrics in the town. Once, the women of..
The traditional mass ascent to Mount Kom in the Balkan Mountains on July 9 marks the 172nd birth anniversary of the Patriarch of Bulgarian Literature Ivan Vazov, born on July 9, 1850. The Municipality of Berkovitsa organizes the event for the sixth..
Today, July 9, the Community Center “Niva 1898” in the village of Balvan, Veliko Tarnovo district, hosts the traditional Banitsa Festival named “Banitsa on Weekdays and Holidays”. Undoubtedly, banitsa is the most popular Bulgarian pastry meal. Have..