Bulgaria’s first ever Christmas tree to appear in a private home dates back to 1879, just a year after it was liberated from the Ottoman Turkish Empire, whereas the first featuring of a Christmas tree ...

Are you feeling festive this year? Are you also an avid traveller? If so, you’ll want to add Bulgaria to your list this Winter. Whilst Bulgaria is primarily an Eastern Orthodox country, like many, ...

As Bulgarians mark Christmas Eve on December 24, it signifies not just the day before the birth of the Son of God but also a cherished occasion for family gatherings and time-honored customs. Today ...

As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are observed in our broadcast region, we talked to Teodora Barzakova from RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service about how Christmas is celebrated ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians have named Wham's "Last Christmas" the most annoying Christmas song ever. An advertising agency says nearly 19 percent of the 28,110 votes cast in an online poll ...

'How many homosexual couples let go of each-other's hands when they arrive in Sofia?' Credit: PA Images / Valentina Petrova I am in Bulgaria for the Christmas and New Year holidays again and I am in a ...