Bayse Kasimlarli is a primary school teacher. She is one of those pedagogues for whom working with children is not just a profession, but a calling. She says that the little ones give her strength and energy, and she puts her whole soul and heart into..
American Rory Miller has been living in Bulgaria for over 15 years. Initially, he was involved in craft beer production. A few years ago, Rory participated in a popular cooking reality show. He has been mastering the subtleties of traditional..
Her heart was moved by the plight of little souls who had been wronged by fate, and this motivated her to undertake a journey to the other side of the globe. Dr. Elena Shtarbanova, a specialist in anesthesiology at the "Sveta Ekaterina" Hospital in Sofia,..
At first, when he first arrived in Bulgaria, Alexander Acosta Osorio felt isolated and a little confused because of the language barrier and the cultural clash. "At that time, there wasn't such a large foreign community here, and I was probably the..
Dr Maya Padeshka is one of a number of university lecturers beyond Bulgaria's borders who have dedicated their lives to spreading Bulgarian culture and language. Six years ago she won a competition organised by the Ministry of Education and Science, which..
Iconographer and educator - these two words naturally come to mind when we seek to bring back from the depths of history an artist who began his artistic journey in the first years after Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman rule in 1878. Milyo Marinov..
We are used to "news stories" on our social profiles about the seven huge oil portraits of Bulgarian opera singers at La Scala or about the first Bulgarian concertmaster at the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's concert. But sometimes we leave important..
"Before I invented the "Trapeze of Death", I was known as Lazar Dobrich, that's the name they used on posters and programmes. The Señor of World Circus Art will always be remembered for the most risky act in the ring - the Trapeze of Death, with a..
In 1920, a young woman with a nine-month-old baby faced a difficult life choice – to stay in Sofia with her husband, to go to her parents in Edirne, or to choose her brother who had settled in Thessaloniki. After two months of..
Nuredin Nuredinaj comes from the historical-geographical region of Gòra in Northeastern Albania, where 90% of the inhabitants identify themselves as Bulgarians (data from the census in 2023). Over 7 thousand Bulgarians live in Albania The..
On his last Easter, Pope Francis appeared before the faithful wearing an omophorion that he received as a gift during his visit to Bulgaria in 2019...
Travelers planning a spring escape might want to consider Sofia, which has been named the top European capital for a road trip getaway this season,..
The only Museum of Glass in Bulgaria is in Beloslav, a small town on one of the arms of Varna Lake. It was here, in 1893, that the Mushalan brothers..
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