Their 10-year draft management plans remove construction protection regimes Sofia - The coalition of NGOs and civil groups "For the Nature in Bulgaria” -- that WWF is part of -- warns that the draft ...

Sofia, Bulgaria -- In a draft amendment of the concession contract for Bansko Ski Zone in UNESCO’s Pirin National Park, on 19 February the political parties in Bulgaria's Development Council offered ...

Bulgaria’s second largest city, Plovdiv, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in all of Europe. UNESCO World Heritage ...

The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place ...

The race for the post of UN Secretary-General is now open, after Bulgaria announced the candidacy of Irina Bokova for the post of UN Secretary General. Irina Bokova, in her UNESCO office.

Before she took up her post in Bulgaria, Mitrofanova was Russia’s permanent delegate to UNESCO, where Kosovo’s application ...

The Nestinarstvo fire-dancing rite is the climax of the annual Panagyr ritual on the feast days of Saints Constantine and Helena (3 and 4 June) in the village of Bulgari, in the Mount Strandzha region ...

It's a city inhabited for 11,000 years and has seen empires come and go, including the Greeks, Romans and Ottomans.

In his response, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Kishore Rao, said Bulgaria could develop tourism anywhere outside the UNESCO site. He also called the new draft management plan for ...

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo Monastery and Monastery of Rila (Bulgaria) - US$21,000: of which US$16,000 will be earmarked for the purchase of equipment and US$5,000 for advisory services on the ...