Press releases archive March, 2007

2007/03/27

The ground-breaking ceremony of the first self contained gated residential settlement in Bulgaria - “Veliko Tarnovo Hills,” took place on the 22nd of March, which is also the official holiday of the old capital of Bulgaria, Veliko Tarnovo. The total investment is estimated to 50 million Euro. The development company has planned to complete the project in maximum 3 years.

The luxury settlement spreads over 60,000 square meters on the Troshana hill, about 2.5 km away from the centre of Veliko...

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2007/03/19

Can’t you feel it, the spring has come and it is the beginning of the new Mountain bike season. Many of the mountain bikers in Sofia, including me, have pieced together their new bikes during the winter and it is high time that they tested them at some other place different from Vitosha. So, on Saturday evening, after we had done about 10 downhills in Vitosha, the guys from one of the best MTB teams in Bulgaria invited me to come with them in Sopot on the next day. They chose Sopot not only...

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2007/03/13

It was February winter evening in the pretty Rodopean town Chepelare. The snow was falling gently on the cold ground and I was extremely happy because I imagined the rounded peaks of Rodope Mountain, covered with snow and the ski pistes of the magnificent resort Pamporovo, full of skiers. I checked in the hotel and I went in my room waiting anxiously for the next day. And the morning was just what I wanted to be. I was wakened by the sun, whose beams had managed to make their way through the...

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2007/03/13

The spring is on its way now and most of the people are on a shopping therapy during the weekend, because March is the sale month, when the new spring and summer collections come at the market. Although my girlfriend is recently on me for I have to renovate my wardrobe, I was not on her suggestion to fool me around the shops the whole Saturday. Instead of this I putted my snowboard equipment on, pushed the peeled board into the car and made my way to Borovets.

After an hour...

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2007/03/12

I arrived in Smolyan in the late afternoon. The March sun was slowly reaching the hills of the Rodope Mountain and shined over the town with its soft reddish beams. I passed through the first neighbourhood, Ustovo and reached a sign “Architectural reserve”, and the bell tower of the local churched rose above me. It turned out that I am already in Raykovo neighbourhood, and right before me was the Cheshitska Mahala (the region of the contradictory people) – the revival pride of old Raykovo. As...

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