CHALKIDIKI FOREVER
One of the best ways to spend your upcoming holiday is also the easiest – go Chalkidiki
ROMAN PLOVDIV
Bulgaria's rich ancient heritage is yours to explore
WALKING ON FIRE
Forget the make-believe nestinari in restaurants and resorts and experience the real thing in the village of Balgari
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An interesting side effect of the construction of dams was that sometimes whole villages had to be resettled because they would be submerged by the rising waters. There are quite a few of these and sometimes, when the waters recede, bemused visitors can see remnants of the buildings surreally jutting out of lakes and reservoirs.
There are dozens of street clocks in this city, from fin-de-siècle masterpieces to electronic devices commercially erected in public spaces. Here we show you one that, until very recently, was rarely if ever seen by the general public.
A favourite shooting location for filmmakers
There is a legend that 40 Bulgarian girls jumped into the sea to avoid Islamisation by the Ottoman Turks. 
Next to the small church, where a 19th Century massacre of Bulgarians took place, sits an actual Soviet fighter plane donated to their hometown by local soldiers born in 1949.
That village, deep in the heart of the Strandzha, was declared a national heritage site as early as 1982. It is renowned for its period wooden houses, its interesting church and its balmy climate that is neither too hot nor too cold.
Where in Bulgaria are you?
Erected on a Central Balkan mountain ridge offering fantastic vistas to both the southern Balkan fields and its hilly outreaches into Northern Bulgaria, this site is home to Communism's grandest and possibly least useful monument. Erected in the early 1980s on the site where a 19th Century social democrat founded what would evolve into Bulgaria's Communist Party, the building has sometimes been described as a flying saucer epitomising the megalomania of Bulgaria's erstwhile rulers.
There are many explanations why this village came to be on the steep bank of the Kanina River, protected by the high ridges of the Western Rhodope and facing the even higher peaks of the Pirin.
You will shout "Eureka!" – or "I have found it!" – while dashing into the sea
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