The Orthodox world celebrates the feast of the Holy Spirit. It is always observed on the day after Pentecost For Bulgarians, the feast of the Holy Spirit (Sveti duh) is also a day of awakening of national memory, a day of protest against the..
Visitors to the British Museum in London can now marvel at one of Bulgaria’s most emblematic archaeological discoveries - the Panagyurishte gold treasure - as part of a thematic exhibition entitled "Luxury and Power: From Persia to Greece” . The..
On April 17, 1944, on Holy Saturday, 350 American and British bombers dropped about 2,500 bombs on Sofia shortly before noon. According to eyewitnesses, "mine surprises" were also thrown along with the bombs. On Holy Saturday, 128..
А very old settlement in Northeastern Bulgaria, Alfatar is mentioned in the historical chronicles from the end of the 16th century with the names Alfatar, Akhlatar and even Iflatar. Part of its cultural and historical heritage is preserved to..
North Macedonia's Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, in an interview with bTV, said that the Bulgarian cultural clubs in North Macedonia should change their names according to the law adopted by Skopje censoring the names of cultural institutions ...
The night was frosty on December 8, 1896. In the warm lounge of the Macedonia Hotel in Sofia, the audience is quiet. A hypnotic séance is taking place. The hypnotist is a certain prof. Mellinson, a self-proclaimed "physics professor". The..
For people visiting Bulgaria’s second biggest city, Plovdiv for the first time, seeing its winding streets, colourful buildings and welcoming people is usually like love at first sight. People in Plovdiv will readily direct you to all the must-sees,..
Artefacts from the period 7th century BC - 12th century AD, among which a rare Thracian sword, ornaments from the Thracian and Roman eras, silver and bronze objects are exhibited in the Historical Museum in Chiprovtsi . They are described in detail in..
145 years ago, four Sofia booksellers were hanged on the gallows on charges of distributing seditious literature. Immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Rule in 1878, the founder of book publishing in Bulgaria, Hristo G. Danov,..
The day Bulgaria declared its independence, September 22, with the manifesto of the Bulgarian Prince Ferdinand, put an end to the last vassal ties with the Ottoman Empire. The Principality of Bulgaria became an independent kingdom, headed by the already..
