http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com Bulgaria Travel Guide offers tourist information, including tour attractions, travel planning tips and Bulgaria tours. Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:00:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en THE NEWS: FIT to meet the EU ! It is not accidentally that the most eminent Bulgarian travel writer Aleko Konstantinov is more widely known with his pseudonym ”The Happy man”. This fact is an eloquent symbol of the primordial Bulgarian passion for travelling. For all generations in Bulgaria travelling ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/travel-to-bulgaria/bulgaria-tourist-organisations/fit-to-meet-the-eu/ Bulgaria is situated in the South-East part of Europe. Area: 110,993.6 km2. Population: 7.97 million To the north Bulgaria borders Romania. To the south - with Greece and Turkey. To the west - with Serbia and Montenegro and Macedonia. To the east - with the Black Sea. Capital City: Sofia (population: 1,122,302) The capital city Sofia is situated ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/about-bulgaria/general-information/general-information/ Prom., SG. 56/13 Jul 1991, amend., SG. 85/26 Sep 2003, amend., SG. 18/25 Feb 2005 We, the Members of the Seventh Grand National Assembly, guided by our desire to express the will of the people of Bulgaria, by pledging our loyalty to the universal human values of freedom, peace, humanism, equality, ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/about-bulgaria/general-information/constitution-of-the-republic-of-bulgaria/ The territory of Bulgaria has been inhabited since the earliest historical times. Bulgaria’s historical heritage is related to the rich culture of Ancient Thrace. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Bulgarian land was incorporated in the Byzantine Empire. In the second half of the 7th century, today’s northeastern Bulgaria was ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/about-bulgaria/history/history/ Bulgarian Public Holidays 1 January – New Year’s Day 3 March – National Holiday (Bulgaria’s Day of Liberation from the Ottoman Rule) 1 May – Labour Day 6 May – St. George’s Day, Day of the Bulgarian Army 24 May – Day of Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture and of Slavonic Alphabet 6 September ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/about-bulgaria/general-information/public-holidays/ Bulgaria is a parliamentary republic and conforms with the Constitution of the Republic passed by the Grand National Assembly in July 1991. The Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria is the supreme law of the country and no other law may contravene it. All international treaties, which are ratified pursuant ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/about-bulgaria/general-information/form-of-government/ The coat-of-arms of the Republic of Bulgaria is a state symbol of the independence and sovereignty of the Bulgarian people and the state. The coat of arms of the Republic of Bulgaria is a golden crowned lion, standing on his hind legs, in front of a dark red shield. The shield ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/about-bulgaria/general-information/coat-of-arms/ Area - 7 020, 21 sq. km Population- 273 882 Average temperature - 11°C Sofia district is situated in the central part of Western Bulgaria and it suburbs the territory of the capital almost as a ring. It is the second district with the biggest territory in Bulgaria /after Burgas district/ and ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/destinations/sofia-district/ Area - 20 269, 8 sq. km Population- 150 319 Average temperature - 11,35°C The district with administrative centre the town of Pernik is situated in the south-western part of the country, 30 km south-west of the nation’s capital. Main roads of European and Balkan importance run across the territory of the region: ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/destinations/pernik-district/ Area - 1310,8 sq. km Population - 1 177 577 Average temperature - 10,4° C Sofia is an ancient city, which has been an important cross road between the European Southeast and the threshold of Asia for many centuries. On the strength of the statute of the capital, the institutional infrastructure is concentrated ... http://travelguide.bulgariantour.com/destinations/sofia-city/