by admin | May 17, 2019 | latest news
Plovdiv and the Bishop’s Basilica made it into the New York Times this week after 52 Places Traveler Sebastian Modak spent a week exploring Europe’s oldest consistently inhabited city. History is just one of Plovdiv’s allures, Modak writes; the city has plenty to...
by admin | Aug 24, 2018 | latest news
America for Bulgaria Foundation announced the visit to Plovdiv of Lee H. Skolnick and a team of architects and designers from New York City based LHSA+DP. Mr. Skolnick was engaged by America for Bulgaria Foundation to develop the Interpretive Master Plan for the...
by Krum Karadakov | Jun 1, 2018 | latest news
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) approved the inclusion of the Bishop’s Basilica and the Roman mosaic heritage of Philippopolis on Bulgaria’s Tentative List of significant cultural and natural sites. The announcement was...
by Krum Karadakov | Mar 3, 2018 | latest news
Young museumgoers in Sofia celebrated Bulgaria’s national day, March 3, by going back to the country’s beginnings: they learned how to write in Glagolitic, the early Cyrillic script, dressed dolls in traditional Bulgarian attire they made, and practiced the ancient...
by admin | Jan 11, 2018 | latest news
The exhibit was inaugurated at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and marks the beginning of Bulgaria’s application for UNESCO designation 20 November 2017, Paris. America for Bulgaria Foundation (ABF) is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibit “Bulgaria...
by Krum Karadakov | Nov 13, 2017 | latest news
A treasure that lay buried for 14 centuries, a great deal of determination and more than five years of work to restore it, and a benefactor committed to Bulgaria and its cultural heritage—these are just some of the elements of the exciting history of the Bishop’s...
