The fifty-fifth edition of the pageant "Queen of Roses '2023" will be held on 19 May in the town of Kazanlak. The organizers have prepared a surprise pre-presentation of the contenders for the tiara. The show will be broadcast on large video walls. After the Queen of Roses is crowned, she will be presented to the citizens and guests of the central Bulgarian town.
A fortnight after that, in early June, the Queen of Roses and the runners-up will take part in the celebrations for the 120th edition of the Rose Festival in Kazanlak. The beauty queens will be dressed in designer gowns by Zheni Zhivkova (Bulgarian designer and granddaughter of the late communist dictator Todor Zhivkov - ed.)
Carnival procession that passes through the whole city is the culmination of the Rose Festival. This year, the clubs of local Community Centres will parade in original costumes typical of the folklore of Kazanlak's twin towns from abroad.
Bulgaria’s top geography secondary school students won 4 medals at the world’s most prestigious geography contest, the International Geography Olympiad (iGeo). At the 21 st iGeo, the contestants from Bulgaria won 3 silver and 1 bronze medal – one of..
A festival celebrating femininity in all its forms will take place in the village of Vetren, Silistra, from today until Sunday. The festival's name, 'Sacrée Femme', was chosen by Bulgarian-French singer, violinist and actress Emanuela Kalcheva-Djaima,..
The months June, July and August 1888 was perhaps the most eventful time in the railway history of Bulgaria after the country’s liberation from Ottoman rule in 1878. The Tsaribrod-Sofia-Vakarel railway line was commissioned for domestic exploitation..
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A march called "Peace Bell" passes through Bulgaria. The initiative is from the German union of the same name. The participants firmly believe that..
Devin – the “city of mineral water” is located in one of the most picturesque regions of Bulgaria - the southwestern part of the..
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