News and useful information about Varna, Bulgaria
From mid-June, four new flights will be available from Varna and Burgas airports to London Gatwick Airport. Route Operating Days Starts Fares from** Burgas, Bulgaria Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 15 June 2022 £21.99 Varna, Bulgaria Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday 13 June 2022 £17.99 Airline Wіzz Aіr has announced the four routes to its Gatwick [...]
The last Bulgarian submarine, Slava has been parked near the city of Varna and converted into a museum. The submarine, which serviced with the Bulgarian Navy from 1985 until its decommissioning in 2011, is situated at the pier near the Museum of Glass in Beloslav. The new museum opens for visits daily, and the admission [...]
Bulgaria’s Varna and Burgas international airports have installed automated border control e-gates to help expedite the immigration process for e-passport holders. 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 [...]
Varna’s tourist branch expects a good tourist season along the Black Sea’s northern coastline for another year. The first organized visitors in the area of the Black Sea city of Varna will arrive in the beginning of May. Large groups of tourists, mostly Romanians, will visit Varna for Easter holidays, celebrated this year on April [...]
Latvian airline airBaltic (www.airbaltic.com) has concluded an agreement with the international tour operator Tez Tour for summer flights from Riga to Varna, Bulgaria. The new two weekly return flights will start on 24 June 2014 and offer convenient connections between the two cities and beyond to destinations in the Baltic region, Scandinavia and Russia. Christophe [...]
The restoration of the complex of ancient Roman Thermae in city of Varna will begin in March. The plan for the restoration of the forth-largest preserved Roman baths in Europe was announced by the mayor of Varna Ivan Portnih on Facebook, Monday. Some BGN 150,000 will be granted for the project implementation. Another BGN 130,000 [...]
City of Varna expects 500 000 tourists to witness the Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2014. The event will take place between April 30 and May 27 2014 and will be held entirely in the Black Sea, with the following host ports – Varna port (Bulgaria), Sochi and Novorossiysk (Russia) and Constanta (Romania). Varna – [...]
Why not tryout a kayak tour in the Varna Bay – relaxing, engaging in sports and taking a view of the city from the sea!?
Bulgaria’s Council of Ministries has launched a public tender for the restoration of the State summer residence Euxinograde, near Varna. The amount of over BGN 6 M comes from EU funds. The bid to repair and restore the palace, all adjacent buildings, the green house and landscape works at the park is now open for [...]
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, has pledged the significant amount of BGN 3 M for restoration and conservation of the historical Roman Baths in the Black Sea city of Varna. The sum came as a pleasant surprise to archaeologists who have asked for BGN 200 000. Djankov made the pledge during [...]