Grand stage of Plovdiv Drama Theatre burns down in fire
A fire at the Plovdiv Drama Theatre on the morning of August 22 has burned down the grand stage and
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Bulgaria rejects Turkish request to acquire Ottoman-era monuments
Bulgaria’s Culture Minister Petar Stoyanovich said on August 12 that the Government had no intention of transferring ownership of Ottoman-era
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Bulgaria’s ‘banitsa bandit’ pleads guilty in 1.47M leva robbery suit – updated
Georgi Enev, the security guard charged with stealing 1.47 million leva (about 750 000 euro) from an armoured van, pleaded
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Archaeology: Roman wall unearthed in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv
A Roman wall, estimated to date from the third to the fifth century CE, has been unearthed in the centre
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Exhibition in Plovdiv marking 60th anniversary of East German uprising
An exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the June 1953 uprising in East Germany is to open in Bulgaria’s second
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Restaurant Review: Gusto
As a youth, I once was among a group of people who – for reasons too dreary to go into
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Metropolitan Nikolai, football fans slam gay film festival in Plovdiv
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai has slammed as “a shameful demonstration of the sin of Sodom” the holding of
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‘Behaviour’ theme of Otets Paisii street festival in Plovdiv from June 7 to 9
Exhibitions, installations, concerts, theatre and performance – parallel urban culture will invade Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv on June 7,
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Sofia, Plovdiv to light the sky on Night of the Museums
Sofia and Plovdiv, the two cities considered as front-runners to win Bulgaria’s nomination for the 2019 European Capital of Culture,
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