Airline Wіzz Aіr has announced the four routes to its Gatwick base in London from Burgas, Varna, Venice and Palermo. The carrier will also increase frequencies on its newly announced routes from Gatwick to London, Milan and Vienna, the company reported.

From 27 March, the carrier will operate flights five times a week from London Gatwick to Venice, and from 29 March it will fly twice a week to Palepmo, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily. In addition to the four new routes, the airline is also increasing the frequency of its flights to Larnaca, Milan and Vienna from daily to twice daily on most days.

The news comes after Wіzz Аіr’s successful acquisition of 15 daily slot doubles at London Gatwick Airport and the already announced addition of 14 new routes from spring 2022 onwards. This means that Wіzz Air will operate a total of 25 routes from there for the summer season of 2022

The building is 15 metres tall in the shape of the letter D.

The impressive design of the D-shaped building has also been awarded a prestigious prize at the national medical building of the year 2020 competition. The Dentaprime Clinic building took four months to plan and was built in five months. The company is also planting up to 100,000 square metres of trees a year on its own land with the aim of creating Europe’s first fully climate-neutral dental clinic.

The new museum opens for visits daily, and the admission is 6 BGN for children and 12 BGN for adult visitors.

Slava is 76 metres long, with two diesel and two electric motors, it was capable of a surface speed of 15.3 knots, and a submerged speed of 13.2 knots, and a maximum immersion depth of 300. It had a crew of 54. It had six torpedo tubes on the bow and two astern. Built-in the Soviet Union in 1959, the submarine was initially named Leninski Komsomol then in 1991 it was renamed to Slava.

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It was not actively used in the 1990s due to the expiration of the battery, which was replaced in 1998. After Bulgaria’s accession to Nato, the submarine participated in a number of joint exercises, and in 2007 participated in a successful exercise to rescue the crew of a damaged submarine.

Right now the Bulgarian Navy currently has left with no submarines in service. Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov said in February 2020 that Bulgaria was negotiating in an attempt to buy two second-hand ones.

Georgi Georgiev graduated from the “Academy of Art” in Belgrade, and later emigrated to canada. He became interested in Human-Powered Vehicles (HPV) in the late 1970′s. After an accident of one his friends that left him paralyzed, Georgi set on a mission to help ease the lives of wheel-bound people across the world. Since then, the Guinness Worlds Speed Records have been topped 10 times with vehicles, produced by Georgiev’s company. Among them are Varna Tempest, Varna Mephisto, and Varna Diablo.

In 2009 Varna Tempest has sped up to 133.28 km per hour, a number unseen by a human-propelled vehicle before. Canadian scientists have stated that the bullet-shaped vehicles are created in the optimal aerodynamic form in history of humankind. Curiously enough, Georgi did not use any complicated mathematical equations, but simply his engineering instincts.

Photo: Varnahandcycles.com

Atanasov, as cited by Darik radio, made clear that the contract signed with Russian company South Stream Transport in mid-January 2014 was for a four-year term.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Port Varna underscored that even in the case of a re-routing of the gas pipeline via Turkey, the pipes would still have to be offloaded in Varna and Burgas.

Under preliminary plans, the offshore section of the South Stream gas pipeline was to consist of four parallel strings located on the Black Sea seabed, with each string consisting of over 75 000 pipes.

Some of the pipes are still stored on the territory of warehouse terminals at the ports of Varna and Burgas.

The automated gates – vb i-match 5 e-gates supplied by Vision-Box – make use of facial recognition technology to verify the traveller’s identity. As for future developments, fingerprint will be activated to complement facial verification, making it the first multimodal biometric solution implemented in the Balkans. The associated contract is co-financed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior and EU, under Action 5 – “Establishing automated border control for EU citizens,” Annual Program 2012-2013 of the External Borders Fund.

“In modern airports like Varna and Burgas, facing constantly increasing flows at the border, it is imperative to embrace new technologies that concede the traveller more control and better convenience during his journey, while delivering the most efficient and effective tools to the border control authorities to increase their capacity,” explained Vision-Box’s Jean-François Lennon.

The e-gates can be used by e-passport holders who are aged 18 or over and are citizens of the European Union, European Economic Area or Switzerland.

This year’s topic of its application was “Social Innovations and Youth Entrepreneurship“. As it is now European Youth Capital for 2017, the youth projects of Varna Municipality and of NGOs will enjoy preferences in being approved when applying for financing under European programmes.

An independent, high-level jury gave the award based on an application from Varna that focused on making the city a “social hub”, with “Innowave” the title of Varna’s year. The jury felt that this could lead to significant change in terms of sustainable long-term youth participation in the city, which is one of the key aims of the European Youth Capital (EYC) title. In its year as European Youth Capital, Varna will focus on social innovation, in particular on the development of social entrepreneurship as a tool for development of youth participation, sustainable employment, creativity, networking, exchange and education.

With a population of approximately 340,000, Varna has a large number of young people (around 158,000 under the age of 35).

The European Youth Capital 2017, as in previous years, will encourage participation of young people through the promotion of new ideas and innovative projects. During an EYC year, the host city holds events and projects designed to demonstrate the active, essential role that young people and youth organisations can and do play in society.

Peter Matjašič, President of the European Youth Forum, comments:

“We would like to congratulate Varna, European Youth Capital 2017, for their strong, diverse and detailed proposal and their commitment to tackle issues such as youth participation, education, social inclusion, employment and volunteering. I know it was a particularly difficult decision for the jury to make, given the strength of the applications.

“This prestigious title is a fantastic way to showcase good practice examples of youth policy making and youth participation at local level and think of new, innovative ideas and projects designed by and for young people to truly engage them in the life of their city. The EYC is also a unique way to strengthen the bonds between the candidate cities and Europe.”

The Festival of Festivals programme will offer premieres of cinema hits such as “The Imitation Game”, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Woody Allen’s “Magic In The Moonlight” and “Mangelhorn”, starring Al Pacino. The Kinomania festival will also include documentaries, such as “Trespassing Bergman”, “Chaplin: La Legende Du Siecle” and “B.B.King: Life Of Riley”.

The children’s films are dubbed in Bulgarian. Kinomania in Sofia Varna the festival will take place in the Festival and Culture Centre. Tickets are priced BGN: 5-8. More information on the films and programme, can be found at the Festival and Culture Centre website – fccvarna.bg.

Those car owners who leave their car on a pedestrian crossing, in a park, on a park alley, or in playground, will have to pay between BGN 200 and 800. those parking on a pavement will be fined between BGN 50 and 200. The new fines come into force immediately.

Photo: Varna Utre Archive

The event is organised by Chigot – Varna, an organisation dedicated to historical re-enactments. The Chigot members will present for the seventh time the most dramatic episode of the last medieval European crusade, the crusade of Władysław III of Poland and John Hunyadi against the Ottoman Empire in 1444.

The re-enactment is expected to be extra special this year as the 570th anniversary of the Battle of Varna is to be commemorated. Organisations from abroad will also take part in it.
The Battle of Varna took place near Varna on November 10, 1444. The Ottoman army of Sultan Murad II defeated the armies of King Władysław III, John Hunyadi and ruler Mircea II of Wallachia.
The battle, in which Władysław III died is said to be the final battle of the Crusade of Varna.