WHERE IN BULGARIA ARE YOU?
At the same time it found itself facing with severe labour shortages. What they did was to convince young Bulgarians...
At the same time it found itself facing with severe labour shortages. What they did was to convince young Bulgarians...
It produced some of the brightest minds of the time. Since independence in 1878, however, it has been going downhill as its citizens sought their fortunes elsewhere and emigrated en masse.
The bridge was built in the late 19th century with a donation by Jiří Prošek, a Czech entrepreneur who had introduced beer brewing to Bulgaria.
Referred to by everyone as just "The Russian Church," its initial purpose was to serve the Russian emigres in town. It was erected on Russian land and its maintenance was given to the Russian legation nearby.
There are no road signs pointing to it and the road itself, which was once asphalt, is slow and tortuous.
Growing roses and extracting valuable attar of roses is a big thing here in springtime. And the area is doted with bigger and smaller mounds most of which conceal tombs belonging to ancient Thracian nobility.