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Bulgarian state railways BDZ is to launch a regular train service at weekends and on public holidays between Plovdiv and the Turkish city of Edirne on May 24, media in […]
The third annual Ethno Kitchen on Wheels opens in Plovdiv on May 17 at 6pm, featuring a range of ethnic cuisines. The opening of the event will be att ...
An exhibition entitled “The Rediscovered World of Old Europe” displaying archaeological discoveries from all over Bulgaria – with an ...
Controversial hardline Plovdiv Metropolitan of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Nikolai, has launched a vitriolic attack on the visit to the country by ...
The second consecutive annual Aylyak Parade will be held in Plovdiv on May 4 2019 at 5.30pm, from Rayko Daskalov Street through the main pedestrian street to Stefan Stambolov Square. […]
The ultra-nationalist VMRO minority party in the Plovdiv City Council is continuing its campaign against the Balkan Pride event, this time with an open letter calling for its removal from […]
Hosting a meeting of European Capitals of Culture representatives, the Irish city of Galway has posted a photograph on Facebook of the group showing solidarity with Bulgaria’s Plovdiv, lately caught […]
An April 8 special meeting of the Plovdiv City Council, called at the request of nationalist and socialist critics of the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation and of the planned Balkan Pride […]
Visiting Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was shown decorated fragments of the Berlin Wall. The fragments, part of the Art of Freedom […]
A special meeting of Plovdiv City Council is to be held on April 8 following a petition by opposition councillors who have mounted an attack on the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation […]
