Bulgaria: A Paradise On Earth - Culture of Bulgaria

Culture of Bulgaria

List of famous Bulgarians

Music of Bulgaria

Bulgarian customs

Bulgarian dances

Bulgarian Monuments

Bulgarian cuisine

Bulgarians artists

Public holidays in Bulgaria

Interesting Places in Bulgaria

Bulgarian cuisine

A country often described as lying at the crossroads linking the East and West,Bulgaria functioned as the center of Slavic Europe during much of the Middle Ages,exerting considerable literary and cultural influence over the Eastern Orthodox Slavic world by means of the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.Bulgaria also gave the world the Cyrillic alphabet,the second most-widely used alphabet in the world, which originated in these two schools in the tenth century AD.

Bulgaria has a reputation for rich folklore, distinctive traditional music, rituals and tales.
A number of ancient civilizations, most notably the Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Slavs, and Bulgars, have left their mark on the culture, history and heritage of Bulgaria. The country has nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites:

    * The early medieval large rock relief Madara Rider.
    * two Thracian tombs (one in Sveshtari and one in Kazanlak)
    * three monuments of medieval Bulgarian culture (the Boyana Church,the Rila Monastery and the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo)
    * two examples of natural beauty: the Pirin National Park and the Srebarna Nature Reserve
    * the ancient city of Nesebar, a unique combination of European cultural interaction,as well as,historically, one of the most important centres of sea-borne trade in the Black Sea.

Note also the Varna Necropolis, a 3500-3200 BC burial-site, purportedly containing the oldest examples of worked gold in the world.Bulgaria's contribution to humanity continued in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with individuals such as John Atanasoff — born in the U.S. with Bulgarian origins, regarded as the father of the digital computer. A number of noted opera-singers (Nicolai Ghiaurov, Boris Christoff, Raina Kabaivanska, Ghena Dimitrova), Anna Veleva, and successful artists (Christo Yavashev, Pascin, Vladimir Dimitrov) popularized the culture of Bulgaria abroad.One of the best internationally known artists is Valya Balkanska known for singing the song Izlel e Delyu Haydutin, part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir also known as Mystery of Bulgarian voices is another memorable name.

Remains of ancient Roman Odessus