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Pictures of Bulgaria

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We are working very hard on the Bulgarian course. As a hint of a feature of the course, we show you some wonderful pictures of Bulgaria (click on the images for more information about the locations):
photo credit: Panoramas photo credit: yovko photo credit: Klearchos Kapoutsis photo credit: Marin Nikolov photo credit: Klearchos Kapoutsis photo [...]

Christmas in Bulgaria

The Christmas time in Bulgaria is the time most full of traditions and rituals. Some of the typical Bulgarian rituals are very ancient and are not practiced nowadays. Also in the last decades some western traditions came into the Bulgarian culture. But generally, the Bulgarian Christmas looks like that:
The Old Tradition
Christmas or Koleda started a [...]

Socialism

This period in Bulgarian history is one of the latest and most interesting ones. The communist society was quite different from the normal capitalist one.
At that time, people were “building” socialistic society. The country was closed for the normal people, they could not go out of Bulgarian easily. Everyone who believed something different from the [...]