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2010/08/10

The seventh yearly manna honey festival kicked off Monday in the southern Bulgarian Black Sea town of Tsarevo.

“Manna” honey is a honey produced by bees not from the nectar of flowers but out of secretions left on leaves by other insects who have eaten on them. It is darker in color, reaching red-brown, and is famous for its nutritional and health qualities and unique taste. In Bulgaria it is produced almost only in the Strandzha mountains by the Black Sea in the country's remote south-east...

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2010/08/06

Eileen Nischik, who arrived at Burgas Airport on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast 11.12 EET from Cologne, Germany, turned out to be the airport's one-millionth passenger for 2010.

The 23-year-old German comes with her boyfriend Torsten Dormann to spend a week in Black Sea resort town of Obzor.

The lucky traveler and her friend were serviced in the airport's VIP hall and greeted by the airport director Georgi Chipilski in a special ceremony.

This is the eighth year that the Burgas Airport...

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2010/07/07

Bourgas municipality will install information tables with tourism guide at key positions in the city, announced the head of the municipality direction “Enterprise” Ivelina Strateva.

An administrative map of the respective region will be illustrated on the tables and all of the attractions in Bourgas will be marked on the map.

Except in the city centre, tables will be placed in the resort complexes.

Printed guides are be provided to tourists for free. Stratieva announced that the city...

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2010/06/11

Bulgaria's third Sand Sculpture Festival will be held from the beginning of July until the end of August in the Black Sea city of Bourgas.

The Sand Exhibition's place is the same as last year's – between the tennis courts and horse riding centre, near Park Hotel in the northern part of the Sea Garden Park of Bourgas.



“Circus” is the theme of Sand Sculptures Festival 2010.

Artists from Russia, Ukraine, Latvia and Bulgaria will recreate the Circus Arena in detail.

The festival...

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2010/05/13

The Bulgarian movement “Blue Flag” announced that the international jury of the program “Blue Flag” praised 2884 beaches and 627 yacht ports in the northern hemisphere.

The Bulgarian movement “Blue Flag” announced that 11 of the Bulgarian beaches have received the honourable prize. These are the beaches in Albena, Sunny Day, Elenite, New beach and central beach in Sveti Vlas, Sunny Beach – north, Sunny Beach – south, Pomorie – east, Sozopol – Harmanite and Duni, as well as the yacht port...

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2010/05/12

The eighth festival of the Strandzha Rhododendron gathered over 700 guests, the festival bears the name of the unique for the region shrub, which blossoms in May and June and was accepted as a symbol of the mountain.
The festival takes place ever since 2003 in different parts of the mountain.

This year the organizers from the direction of the natural park and the Bulgarian foundation “Biodivercity” chose the site “Tulpan” over the Zabernovo village in the protected site “Paroria”. Following...

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2010/04/28

Balkan culinary competition called “The taste of the Balkans” will exhibit the best of the national cuisines of Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro. The event will take place form 30 April – 05 May.
Some of the best chefs in the world will arrive in Bourgas to answer the ultimate question – “which country can offer the most delicious hospitality”.

The organizers of the third edition of the prestigious international event, which is supported by the...

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2010/04/22

Bourgas will host the 9th edition of the tourism fair “Your Holiday” - 2010. The exhibition will take place from 22 – 24 april 2010 in the Home of Cultures “Lukoil Neftohim”, Bourgas. The event is supported by the regional administration in Bourgas, the Ministry of economy and tourism.

For the first time, the event will host a labour fair for the tourism industry. Fam trips to tourism sites in Pomorie, Aitos and natural park Strandja will be organized during the event.

“Your vacation” is...

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2010/02/11

Bourgas municipal considers the opportunity for construction of a congress and festival centre in Bourgas, announced the head of “Tourism” department in the municipal Diyana Kolcheva. According to her the town has a great potential to develop congress tourism, not only because it is a regional centre, but also for its excellent transport connections.
At the present moment Bourgas offers enough will equipped hotels, which can offer this service.

The municipal will also discuss opportunities...

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2009/10/22

After the end of the archaeology season, the ancient therms in the mineral baths nearby Bourgas are almost completely uncovered, announced the municipality. The depth of the culture layers is almost 9 metres and specialists already discover findings from the IV-I century BC. The historical sources announce that the today’s neighborhoods in Bourgas – Vetren and Banevo used to be a famous Thermopolis – Aqua Kalide, build in the beginning of the II century by the roman emperor Trayan over an...

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