Press Releases

4 days and 3 nights at Rjana Open Air

Lyudmila Racheva, 2010/07/28

For the 4th year in a row the Funkadelia organizers took us to the village of Ignatitsa, about 100 km away from Sofia, and lifted us on 1500 m above the sea level on a big meadow in Rjana Mountain. From July 08 (Thursday) to July 11 (Sunday) 2010 we enjoyed not only the mountain nature, but also various styles of electronic music that presented to us Rjana Open Air festival.


More than 30 DJs were playing day and night, non-stop, in the course of four days. In the evenings and nights...

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Sebastien Loeb triumphed at Rally Bulgaria

Kamelia Krumova, pictures by Georgi Georgiev, 2010/07/21

Rally Bulgaria 2010, round of the World Rally Championship ended on 11 July 2010. Sebastien Loeb convincingly won the race with 29,5 sec. He was followed by another french pilot Dani Sordo. The third place was taken by Peter Solberg (Norway), and the fourth place by Sebastien Ogier (France).

The awarding ceremony of the winners and the presentation of all participants took place in Rila hotel in Borovets. Numerous visitors from Bulgaria and abroad attended the event and loudly applauded the...

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A trekking tour in the Rui mountain and the gorge of the Erma river

Lyudmila Racheva, VisitBulgaria.NET, 2010/07/15

We decided to spend the two free days of the 01 May holiday outside Sofia. We were looking for a picturesque site with beautiful nature, situated on a maximum distance of 100 km away from the capital of Bulgaria. Thus we chose the region around Tran – a completely unknown site for us. We were attracted by the eco trail situated around the gorge of the Erma river and the Rui mountain with the highest peak of the same name.

We started from Sofia around 10:00 am and passed through the Vladaya...

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Recent Media Coverages

The Bulgarian 'Loch Ness Monster': the Water Bull of the Rabisha Lake

2010/07/02

The world famous monster Nessie from the Loch Ness in Scotland is about to get a rather tough competitor – the Water Bull from the Rabisha Lake in Northwestern Bulgaria.

Even though the Water Bull and Nessie seem to be of very different species, the Water Bull of the Rabisha Lake is set to conquer the world going in the footsteps of the Loch Ness Monster, Emil Tsankov, Mayor of the town of Belogradchik has told Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency).

Belogradchik is a small, though, rather...

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Hot springs make Bulgaria a mecca for the spa crowd

Vancouver Sun, 2010/06/22

Before the fall of communism in 1989, people from Scandinavia, the former Soviet bloc and the Middle East were regular guests in Bulgaria's spa resorts which were at the time specialised in treating a variety of medical conditions.

Bulgaria is among the richest countries in Europe in terms of geothermal resources, boasting hundreds of mineral springs and dozens of spa resorts, some of which were founded by the Romans.

The Black Sea country is now trying to revive its...

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Angling – sport, hobby, and passion for many Bulgarians

www.bnr.bg, Darina Grigorova , 2010/06/17

Angling is a very popular recreational pastime and sport in Bulgaria. The National Meeting of Anglers in Bulgaria that took place last week showed some of the best competitors in sport fishing in Bulgaria, who took part in disciplines such as surface swimmer fishing, surface fly fishing, casting, bottom fishing and feeder fishing. “The most curious thing about this reunion is organized for the second time, and at that 100 years after the first competition”, said Valentin Simov, head of the...

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