In the mountain villages of Smochevo and Pastra, part of Rila municipality, residents are anticipating difficulties in converting their levs into euros due to the absence of local post offices.
As Bulgaria adopts the euro, small settlements lacking post offices, ATMs, and other essential services face a particularly difficult transition. One such place is the village of Emen in Veliko ...
STARO ZHELEZARE, Bulgaria (Reuters) - A group of young Polish artists are bringing a splash of colourful street art to a sleepy village in southern Bulgaria with large outdoor murals, featuring locals ...
In southern Bulgaria, in the village of Tyurkmen, many brick houses sit empty. Their tile roofs are falling in. Gergana Daskalova, an ecologist who spent summers here with her grandparents as a young ...