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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Art train will carry painters, sculptors, musicians, poets and composers from Sofia to varna
21, Feb 2012
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 [...]
Flights from Bulgaria’s Black Sea airports of Varna and Burgas to the Russian capital Moscow are increasing next summer season. The agreement was sealed by the Transport Ministries of the two countries. Since the spring of 2010, there have been seven flights a week on the Varna-Moscow line, which were increased to 14 in the [...]
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Maja, a two-year old Polish girl from the city of Lublin, received a special welcome to Varna, as she became Varna airport’s one millionth passenger for 2011. The lucky girl, who is in Bulgaria for the first time, was welcomed by the airport’s director Dimitar Kostadinov and deputy director Plamen Hristov, who gave her a [...]
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A peculiar tourist attraction – a 45-meter-long artificial dinosaur has arrived in Bulgaria’s Black Sea capital Varna. The curious are welcome to take a tour inside the giant Hollywood-manufactured beast and feel its heartbeat and breathing, as well as experience a variety of visual and sound effects. The “creature” is one of only seven existing [...]
The aquarium in the Bulgarian Black Sea capital Varna has given a name to its first octopus ever. The new inhabitant, a baby Octopus, (Octopus vulgaris), arrived in Varna last week. On Sunday, as the Varna Aquarium celebrated its holiday, it named its first octopus “Indy” – after the Indian Ocean where the octopus originates [...]
Varna Airport sees trafic increase by 2.3 %
15, Jul 2011
Varna Airport saw its passenger traffic climb 2.3 per cent on the year to 400 000 in the first half of 2011, the airport’s concessionaire, Fraport Twinstat Airport Management, said on July 13 2011. The highest rise was registered in tourists from Russia, Finland, Norway and Iran, the company’s spokesperson Ivelina Koeva said. The largest [...]
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