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News Bulgaria » Plovdiv » Culture: Bulgaria's oldest city honored as European culture capital

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/bulgarias-oldest-city-honored-european-culture-capital-154647465.html

Published on: Saturday 12 January 2019

People are silhouetted as they walk in the old town of Plovdiv, ahead of the opening ceremony of Plovdiv as the European Capital of Culture, in Bulgaria, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Plovdiv is the first ...

News Bulgaria » Plovdiv » Culture: Plovdiv, Bulgaria: European Capital of Culture 2019

News channel or source: https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-plovdiv-european-capital-culture/29708732.html

Published on: Sunday 13 January 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 » Plovdiv » Culture: Bulgaria's ancient Plovdiv celebrates as European culture capital

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/bulgarias-ancient-plovdiv-celebrates-as-european-culture-capital-idUSKCN1P70D6/

Published on: Saturday 12 January 2019

PLOVDIV, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Bulgaria's southern city of Plovdiv kicked off its year as an European Capital of Culture with a lights and music show on a 30-meter high tower in the city centre and ...

News Bulgaria » Plovdiv » Culture: In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Culture Amid The Cobblestones

News channel or source: https://www.jta.org/2019/03/19/ny/culture-amid-the-cobblestones

Published on: Tuesday 19 March 2019

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 » Plovdiv » Culture: Bulgarian Culture and Cyrillic Day

News channel or source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002wg43

Published on: Saturday 23 May 2026

Bulgarian church music, performed by the St. Alexander Nevsky Patriarchal Cathedral Choir.

News Bulgaria » Plovdiv » Culture: Bulgaria’s oldest city honored as European culture capital

News channel or source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/12/bulgarias-oldest-city-honored-as-european-culture-/

Published on: Friday 11 January 2019

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - 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 Saturday to watch ...