Nestled in mountain forests an hour and a half south of Sofia, the Rila Monastery is Bulgaria’s most popular tourist destination. It is the country’s largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery ...
Mountain views, beautiful coloured frescos and a fortress-like complex. Postcards explores Bulgaria's magnificent Rila Monastery, a spiritual centre for more than 1,000 years. Founded in the 10th ...
On the southeastern fringes of Europe, Bulgaria is only just gaining a reputation tourist destination with huge potential. But while it’s already pulling in visitors to its Black Sea beaches, its ...
With cheap-as-chips restaurants, resorts and hotels, Bulgaria is known as a holiday destination that offers wonderful value for money, as we regularly report. But these photographs show that the ...
One of Bulgaria’s most popular monasteries, the Rila Monastery, is going to construct a small hydro power plant in order to get a new reliable electricity supply. The entire cost of the project – a ...
IT'S my backside that feels Bulgaria first, through the seat of a taxi as it speeds over cobblestones in the capital city, Sofia. “This country is like the Piccadilly Circus!” my taxi driver exclaims ...
A wildfire is blazing for many days now, right above the historical Bulgarian Rila monastery. Photo by BGNES Eighty five people are trying Sunday put out by hand a wildfire in the "Beli Bor" (White ...