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With charm, aplomb, a large dose of Vivaldi and mercifully short speeches, Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv handed over to Croatia’s Rijeka and Ireland’s Galway its title of European Capital of […]
Controversy surrounds a decision by the municipal council in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv to mandate negotiations with the European Investment Ban ...
A fragment of the Berlin Wall, painted by French artist Thierry Noir, will be unveiled in front of Exhibition Hall 2019 in Bulgaria’s city of Pl ...
The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Plovdiv has opened an investigation into the destruction of archaeology, dating from Late Antiquity, during ...
The budget for the January 12 2020 closing event of Plovdiv – European Capital of Culture 2019 is a relatively modest 50 000 leva (about 25 000 euro), in a […]
Italian operatic pop trio will perform at the Ancient Theatre in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv on July 13 2020. The performance will be part of their “Best of 10 Years” […]
The Plovdiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has instituted pre-trial proceedings in connection with an alleged crime committed by the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation regarding the January opening ceremony of Plovdiv – European […]
Chief Inspector Dimitar Dimitrov has been fired as Plovdiv Traffic Police chief because of the high number of road deaths in the district and because his boss was not satisfied […]
An outdoor ice rink billed as to be the largest in the Balkans – and certainly in Bulgaria – is to open in the city of Plovdiv in late November, […]
Visits by foreign tourists to Plovdiv, the Bulgarian city holding the European Capital of Culture 2019, were 6.5 per cent higher in January to August 2019 than in the first […]
