Bulgaria News News Bulgaria » Culture: Bulgarian Classical Concerts – LA And BgFACE Foundation Celebrate Bulgarian Culture In Los Angeles
Hundreds of guests gathered on November 6 at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles for a major cultural event honoring Bulgarian achievements in art, science, education, and culture. The ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Remains of Bulgaria’s Czar Samuel return ‘home’ after 1,000 years
The emperor is a symbol of Bulgarian national identity whose repatriation stoked tensions with Greece. More than 1,000 years after his death, the remains of medieval ruler Czar Samuel have arrived in ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Students celebrate Bulgarian culture
Bulgarian flags of red, white and green and European Union flags - blue with yellow stars - were hanging all around the Reitz Union's Arredondo Room. There was a martenizi, a kukeri and a survachka - ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Bulgarian Jews prepare country’s first Jewish culture festival
Bulgaria’s Jewish community is preparing to launch the country’s first large Jewish culture festival. (JTA) — Bulgaria’s Jewish community is preparing to launch the country’s first large Jewish ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Pope Francis hails Bulgaria as “a culture of encounter”
Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leads the "Regina Coeli" prayer in Alexander Nevsky Square in Sofia, Bulgaria, on May 5, 2019 (CNS photo/Paul Haring). On his first visit to Bulgaria, Pope Francis ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Bulgarian culinary traditions as a way to restore cultural memory: wild herbs
This is the first of a three-part series by Dessislava Dimitrova and Nevena Borisova about how women entrepreneurs drive the revival of culinary traditions in different parts of Bulgaria, as part of ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Bulgarian Cities Bid for Culture Capital Prize
Eight Bulgarian towns and cities are competing for the award of European Capital of Culture 2019. The mayor of Burgas, Varna , Veliko Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Ruse, Sofia, Plovdiv and Shumen submitted their ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Plovdiv, Bulgaria: European Capital of Culture 2019
The southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv celebrated its inauguration as a European Capital of Culture with an opening show on January 12. The city shares the honor in 2019 with Matera, Italy. Plovdiv is ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Bulgaria’s Oldest City Honored as European Culture Capital
SOFIA, Bulgaria—Plovdiv, the oldest city in Bulgaria, has been officially inaugurated as the European Capital of Culture for 2019. Some 50,000 people gathered on a main square on Jan. 12, to watch the ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Culture Amid The Cobblestones
The first thing you notice about Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s 2019 European Capital of Culture, are the so-called cobblestones. These are no genteel cobblestones; the downtown streets are paved with small, ...
News Bulgaria » Culture: Chopova Lowena’s Guide to Unbridled Bulgaria
The designers of the fashion label Chopova Lowena are obsessed with Bulgarian culture. Each of their collections takes inspiration from some aspect of the country’s traditional dress. And their ...