At first, when he first arrived in Bulgaria, Alexander Acosta Osorio felt isolated and a little confused because of the language barrier and the cultural clash. "At that time, there wasn't such a large foreign community here, and I was probably the..
Dr Maya Padeshka is one of a number of university lecturers beyond Bulgaria's borders who have dedicated their lives to spreading Bulgarian culture and language. Six years ago she won a competition organised by the Ministry of Education and Science, which..
Iconographer and educator - these two words naturally come to mind when we seek to bring back from the depths of history an artist who began his artistic journey in the first years after Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman rule in 1878. Milyo Marinov..
We are used to "news stories" on our social profiles about the seven huge oil portraits of Bulgarian opera singers at La Scala or about the first Bulgarian concertmaster at the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's concert. But sometimes we leave important..
"Before I invented the "Trapeze of Death", I was known as Lazar Dobrich, that's the name they used on posters and programmes. The Señor of World Circus Art will always be remembered for the most risky act in the ring - the Trapeze of Death, with a..
In 1920, a young woman with a nine-month-old baby faced a difficult life choice – to stay in Sofia with her husband, to go to her parents in Edirne, or to choose her brother who had settled in Thessaloniki. After two months of..
Nuredin Nuredinaj comes from the historical-geographical region of Gòra in Northeastern Albania, where 90% of the inhabitants identify themselves as Bulgarians (data from the census in 2023). Over 7 thousand Bulgarians live in Albania The..
The scent of cinnamon, cookies and pine, the satisfaction of looking at the crisp tablecloth and shiny cutlery, the cosy feeling of a bright new beginning on January 1st - what would all this be without the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert?..
De Là Trâp - this sonorous name attracted the attention of hip-hop culture fans in Bulgaria this year. For just two months, the joint project "333" with famous rapper 100 KILA collected nearly 1 million views on one of the video..
From the noisy kitchens of London restaurants with Michelin stars to a village hidden in the forests of the Rhodope Mountains, Petko Sharankov's path is full of twists and turns. After living for many years in the British capital where he mastered the..
Bulgaria has joined a multinational nomination for accession to the element "Pasture traditions", inscribed on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural..
Welcome to Bulgaria Today, the English-language podcast of Radio Bulgaria, on March 28, hosted by Rositsa Petkova. We start with a summary of the..
Divers from Burgas' Friends of the Sea association opened the diving season . With the water temperature at seven degrees , they made their traditional..
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