About Bulgaria - Holiday in Bulgaria
Welcome to Bulgaria, a land of fascination, history, growth and prosperity.
Bulgaria borders the Black Sea to the east while Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro form its western border with Greece and Turkey to the south and Romania to the north.
Bulgaria peacefully said goodbye to Communism in 1990 and since then has been flourishing in tourism, the people are beautiful and they welcome foreign nationals with a celebration, unfortunately much unlike some of their Balkan Neighbours who have a tendency to be destructive regarding foreign nationals.
The population of Bulgaria numbers some 8.4 million and is comprised mainly of Bulgarians, approximately 84%, with some 9% of the population being Turks. The remaining comprises of British Permenant Residents with some German and Swiss folk.
Bulgaria Capital and Main Cities
Sofia is the capital city of Bulgaria with some 1.2 million residents.
Sofia Website: www.sofia.bg
The other main cities in descending order are:
PLOVDIV approximately 337,000
VARNA approximately 292,000
BURGAS approximately 198,000
RUSE approximately 166,000
STARA ZAGORA approximately 145,000
PLEVEN approximately 117,000
Plovdiv is the second largest City in Bulgaria with a population of 337,00 people.
Plovdiv is situated 50 km from the Balkan Mountain Range, it sits on and surrounded by seven hills and the river Maritsa runs through the City. The Bulgarians refer to it as 'The City of Seven Hills'
Useful Site www.plovdivcityguide.com
The Currency in Bulgaria is known as 'Bulgarian Leva'
In nearly all shopping areas in Bulgaria you will now see prices displayed in BGN (Bulgarian Leva) But also in Euros. The Country will change its currency over to the Euro on Jan 1st 2012.
Below is a link that www.villamarinelifestylesbulgaria.com uses all the time for currency conversion.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
The Coinage Denominations are 1,2,5,10,20 and 50 and are known as Stotinki
The Leva Notes are in Denominations of 2, 5,10, 20 and 50, so therefore 4x50 Stotinki is = to 2 Leva.
The Gross Domestic Product per Capita is most impressive
1998= 3.5%
1999= 2.3%
2000= 5.4%
2001= 4.1%
2002= 4.9%
2003= 4.5%
2004= 5.6%
2005= 5.2%
2006= 6.4%
2007= 7.3%
www.villamarinelifestylesbulgaria.com sees the growth in Bulgaria as huge, so invest now in the gorgeous country and by Jan 2012 which is their Currency changeover you will see an excellent significant growth.
http://www.investbulgaria.com
When visiting Bulgaria for the first time and getting to know the etiquette of the Bulgarian people, its useful to know that head nodding is completely opposite to the majority of the globe, a nod of the head means 'NO' and a shake of the head from side to side means 'YES'
Three beautiful places in Bulgaria that Villa Marine Lifestyles Bulgaria recommends is Sofia, Trigrad Gorge and Sunny Beach.
Sofia.
The Centre is paved with Yellow Cobblestones.
As in Central Government Buildings throughout the world, we know them as 10,Downing street, The white House and The Kremlin, In Bulgaria, the Central Government office above is known as 'The largo'
As opposed to other Euro Cities, Sofia Does boast a modern Tramway System.
For those Tram enthusiasts among us visit http://www.thetrams.co.uk/
TRIGRAD GORGE
This place is spectacular and absolutely stunning, the gorge walls start off in the south about 1.2km from the village of Trigrad and continue north, the walls are 300m high and at the start of the gorge are 300m apart. As you continue northwards they narrow down to just 100km apart forcing the road into just one lane only. Not a road for joy riders.
SUNNY BEACH AND NESSEBAR
If you want to just come on holiday and just laze on the beach, then Sunny Beach, Bulgaria is the place, Golden sands, very low tidal surge and clean seas.
Above is the main beach in Nessebar.
Above Bulgarian Fishermen on Nebessar Beach.
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