Sights in Bulgaria

Every year, in the first Sunday of August (with rare exceptions in late July), near the monument of Buzludja, the Bulgarian Socialist Party organize political convention of its supporters. The celebrations include the official meeting with speeches by party leaders and other socialists, e...

Every summer (usually in beginning of August) in Popina village is held a celebration "Day of the Danube river". The event is associated with lots of joy and organized traditional games, preserved from the past - picking up a live pig, walking on greased wooden beam above the water and ot...

Each year the village of Gorna Vasilitsa hosts a mummer celebrations. The event is conducted annually on the Maslenitsa (the Day of Forgiveness) during the winter, and has become traditional for the region....

Karlovo is the birthplace of the great Bulgarian revolutionary, called "The Apostle of Freedom" - Vasil Levski. July 18 is his birthday. This is why the inhabitants of the town of Karlovo choose the date for July 18 as their official holiday....

Each year in the autumn (October or November) the officer community "Gurgulyat - descendants" held a national march-worship "The avenue of Immortality - Slivnitsa 1885". The route follows the steps of the glorious Bulgarian army during the war against Serbia in 1885 for the U...

Each year in end of May, in the village of Cherni Vit is held a reproduction of events from 1876. Then the local resident Neyo Krachunov helped Benkovski and his detachment, hiding them in a cave in order to rescue them from the Turks. Neyo was sacrificed his lives and thrown into the river Vit but...

The Folklore Festival "From Timok to Vita" is a traditional for the village of Cherni Vit. It is held annually since 1981 in the last days (Saturday and Sunday) of August. From 1983 the Festival is municipal and is included in the cultural program of Teteven municipality.The purpose of the...

In 2001, the Mayor of the village of Bahovitsa decided the official holiday of the village to be in the last Saturday of August. The festivities took place in the locality "Barnin Dol" near the village. The area was improved with voluntary labour and resources of the local residents. There...

December 6 is the public holiday of Burgas - one of Bulgaria’s most beautiful Black Sea coastal cities. The date is also St Nikola day (Nikulden) - the saint of the fishermen....