People are silhouetted as they walk in the old town of Plovdiv, ahead of the opening ceremony of Plovdiv as the European Capital of Culture, in Bulgaria, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Plovdiv is the first ...

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leads the "Regina Coeli" prayer in Alexander Nevsky Square in Sofia, Bulgaria, on May 5, 2019 (CNS photo/Paul Haring). On his first visit to Bulgaria, Pope Francis ...

Over the weekend, my mom visited Bulgaria for a brief time. She was already in Amsterdam, but she made her way to Eastern Europe. She had never been to Bulgaria or a country like this, and I forgot ...

The first thing you notice about Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s 2019 European Capital of Culture, are the so-called cobblestones. These are no genteel cobblestones; the downtown streets are paved with small, ...

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A Bulgarian Studies program will be launched at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on October 20, 2025, the Consul General of Bulgaria in Chicago, Svetoslav Stankov, said on social media.The ...

In a drive to better acquaint the world with Bulgarian culture, the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in France has put up some unusual benches in the shape of Cyrillic letters in Paris. An installation of ...

The southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv celebrated its inauguration as a European Capital of Culture with an opening show on January 12. The city shares the honor in 2019 with Matera, Italy. Plovdiv is ...

Georgi Kitov, an archaeologist who was an expert on the treasure-rich Thracian culture of antiquity, died while excavating a temple in central Bulgaria considered to be one of his greatest discoveries ...

WELLS — Every Saturday this school year, a group of teachers and students have gathered at the Wells Elementary School voluntarily to pursue a particular type of education. The students, ranging in ...