Latest news about Varna, Bulgaria

Hungarian low-fare airline Wizz Air has announced it would add direct flights between Budapest and Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna to its summer timetable. Direct flights between Budapest and Palma de Mallorca and Milan will be also added. Wizz Air will fly to the destinations out of Budapest from June 18, said chief executive [...]

Bulgaria’s Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski and representatives of concessionaire Fraport Twin Star Airport Management officially opened the rehabilitated runway of Bulgaria’s Varna airport. “The concession of the Burgas and Varna airports is a good example of public-private partnership,” Moskovski said at the ceremony. “We managed to attract EU financing for the railroad infrastructure, but when [...]

I think that this year we will manage to seriously increase the ferryboat shipments from Varna seaport to Caucasus by launching two more ferryboats (Russian and Bulgarian) along this route,” said Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria Yuriy Isakov in an interview with FOCUS News Agency. “Russia’s Lukoil has already invested in Bulgaria – in Lukoil Neftochim [...]

Bulgaria’s Black Sea capital Varna has been ranked 5th among the cities with the most beautiful women in the world by online travel directory and magazine Travelers Digest. The first place is held by Kiev, the Ukraine, followed by Stockholm, Sweden, New York, US, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to Travelers Digets, “Bulgaria isn’t the [...]

Landmark Centre Varna will be offered for sale at a public auction at the initial price of seven to eight million euro on March 21 2012. The sale of the Landmark business center in Varna with a guide tag of 6.7 million euro will test the attitudes of Bulgarian real estate investors toward a market [...]

Why go there?’ was the usual reaction when we revealed we were off to the Black Sea for a June break. It was usually followed by something along the lines of: ‘The Mediterranean’s nearer and better, Bulgaria’s coast is spoilt and overcrowded.’ We stayed at Saints Constantine and Helena, next to Varna, which is actually [...]

In order to support prestigious title of the “European cultural capital” of the two Bulgarian cities Sofia and Varna in early spring a propaganda train will be launched from the capital of Bulgaria. It has already been called the “Art train”, because it will carry representatives of different art directions. Painters, sculptors, musicians, poets and [...]

The owner of Varna Power Plant will invest at least EUR 100 million in order to prolong the operation of the thermal power plant and to reduce the greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, the Stroitelstvo Gradat weekly informs. That was announced by the Czech company CEZ which bought the power station from the state [...]

2011 was a record year for the port of Varna with over nine million tons of processed cargo and over BGN 4 M in net profit. The information was announced by the Director of the Port of Bulgaria’s Black Sea capital, Captain Daniel Papazov, quoted by Radio Varna Wednesday. Expectations for 2012 are that the [...]

Bulgarian triple-play provider Vivacom has been authorised by the Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC) to trial 4G technology in the capital. Vivacom plans to deploy a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Sofia over the next three months. The company expects to use the platform to provide mobile broadband offerings with speeds of up to 100Mbps [...]


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