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Tourism: Bulgaria to spend 300M leva on restoring castles, ancient sites
January 25 2013, 14:14Bulgaria is to spend about 300 million leva (about 150 million euro) in European Union funds over the next two years restoring 11 castles and a large number of ancient sites that are popular tourist attractions. Among the sites where restoration and development work will be done are the museum village of Etura, former capital Pliska, the Madara Horseman cliff carving near the town of Shoumen, Arbanassi, the Assenovgrad fortress, Magura and Ledenika caves and the Belogradchik rocks. Regional Development and Public Works Minister Liliana Pavlova said that 61 municipalities would be inv ...
Bulgaria's real estate market stabilising - realtors
January 25 2013, 14:08Bulgaria's real estate market was still far from the peaks reached at the height of the property boom in 2007, but appears to have bottomed out, data released on April 9 by two local realtors showed.The number of real estate transactions in 2011 was up by 22 per cent compared to the previous year, according to real estate consultancy firm Yavlena, but the bulk of the deals concerned agricultural land.The number of transactions involving mortgages rose by only 4.2 per cent, and their share in the total number of real estate deals declined to 15 per cent (compared to 25.7 per cent in 2008).But a ...