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The number of foreign tourists visiting Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture in 2019, rose by 27 per cent, according a final national monitoring report released on May 26. More than […]
Police in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv checked 95 establishments – restaurants, bars, coffee shops and fast food outlets – in a two-da ...
The 2020 Hills of Rock festival that had been planned for Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv from July 24 to 26 has been cancelled, the organisers said ...
The municipal shelter in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv is resuming its campaign to seek good owners for dogs as the country’s State of Emerge ...
An earthquake measured as 4.5 on the Richter scale by the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre shook Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv at 2.01pm on May 1. Initial data said that the […]
The Plovdiv 2019 Foundation and Plovdiv municipality’s culture department have set up a crisis fund to support independent artists in the Bulgarian city, the foundation said on April 23. The […]
Smoking a cigarette on the banks of the Maritsa River has cost a man a fine of 5000 leva (about 2556 euro) for breaking the ban on visiting public open […]
Stricter measures decided on by the Plovdiv municipal crisis staff against Covid-19 took effect in the city on March 30. No retail outlets may open, except for food shops, pharmacies, […]
A foreign student, reported to be a UK citizen, has been arrested for spreading a false allegation that more than 200 students at the Medical University in Bulgaria’s city of […]
International Fair Plovdiv has postponed its spring exhibitions that were to have been held between March 25 and 29, citing the Bulgarian government’s measures against Covid-19 new coronavirus. The events […]
