Sofia News December, 2007

2007/12/27

The Austrian competitor Stefan Gimpl won the Big Air snowboarding World Cup event, held in Sofia on Saturday, with overall standings leader Janne Korpi coming second.

The Slovenian Matevz Petek took the third place in the finals.
Bulgaria was represented by Mario Benyo, Dimitar Chokoev and Assen Lilov.

More than 2,000 passionate fans of the attractive sport gathered under the lights at the Knyaz Alexander Batenberg Square in Bulgaria's capital to enjoy the show.

"I am pleased...

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2007/12/21

Sofia's city hall has completed the works on the ramp for Saturday's Big Air snowboard World Cup event in the downtown of the Bulgarian capital.

The ramp, which weighs more than 600 tonnes, is 100 metres tall, 32 metres long and 20 metres wide, towering over the Battenberg Square.

Although it has further slowed down traffic during rush hours on one of Sofia's main boulevards, the event's organisers have refused to move it to another location.

They have also refused to postpone it until...

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2007/12/21

Christmas on Bicycles is the motto with which BikEvolution will celebrate Christmas on December 22 at 10.30am in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia (NDK). Festive costumes, hot tea and music will welcome all visitors who wish to attend the Christmas parade.

A festive bicycle tour will start at 11am in front of NDK and head down the main Sofia shopping streets. The participants will raise viewers’ Christmas spirit with their Christmas costumes, with Santa Claus arriving...

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2007/12/20

The reorganised and enriched Third Bulgarian Kingdom 1878-1946 exhibition would open on December 21 at the National Museum of History (NIM), a NIM media statement said.
The exhibition consists of more than 850 exhibits, most of which are being shown for the first time. New exhibits would supplement each one of the themes presented.
A new aspect of the exhibition would be the separate displays dedicated to each of the Bulgarian monarchs of the period – Alexander I, Ferdinand I and Boris III,...

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2007/12/18

A Christmas village built with the sponsorship of Bulgaria's first and largest GSM operator, M-Tel, will open doors today near the National Palace of Culture, Sofia.
Sofia City Mayor Boyko Borissov himself will be there to cut off the red ribbon.

The International Fair Plovdiv will also have a Christmas village of its own as of tomorrow. Both the Sofia and Plovdiv Christmas villages will have slides and ice-rinks and little shops selling sweets and drinks. Once a week, M-Tel will bring...

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