Hisarya, Bulgaria

The situation in Sredna Gora remains complex. Firefighters from Koprivshtitsa, Gabrovo and Sofia have joined firefighters in the municipality of Hisarya, said the Regional Directorate of Fire Safety and Population Protection in Plovdiv.

The town of Lovech has a magnificent guardian who watches over it day and night. This is the Lovech medieval fortress, which rises above the city and preserves wonderful stories from the past.

The fortress has been restored and open for tourists for years, but recently new attractions have been added making it worth visiting again!

Bulgaria offers many destinations suitable for health tourism.

In most resorts nowadays procedures are offered to improve the overall well being of the body, but still there are countries whose natural resources give them an advantage in the industry and Bulgaria is one of them.

A little boy has drowned in 'Pyasachnik' dam near Plovdiv village Belovitsa. He was fishing with his father who called the emergency service. The incident happened around 14:30 on Thursday. 

A crew from sector 'Specialised operative actions' in cooperation with servants from the police in Hisarya have pulled out the body of the already dead 5-year-old boy.

Bulgaria and Romania will start offering joint spa holiday packages to tourists from the beginning of next year.

The package, which is part of the EU-funded project "Roman Thermal Spas of Europe", will offer to tourists the opportunity to stay at two spa resorts - one in Bulgaria and one in Romania.

The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency has impounded assets operated by firms connected to Tsvetan Vasilev, majority owner of collapsed Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank or KTB).

The shares of a company owning several hotels have been impounded, Pressa daily reported.

Archaeologists from Bulgaria's Hisarya Archaeological Museum unearthed a lion's head, a consecrated tablet with nymphs and a part of a life size statue, reports Dnes.bg.

According to the director of the town museum, Mitko Madzharov, the artifacts were dated end of II and beginning of III c. AD and prove that the settlement existed before the rule of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

The state of emergency in Bulgaria's Hisarya municipality has been lifted, mayor Penka Ganeva told Darik radio.

"The decision was taken after all damages were reported, all the water in the houses was drained away and the situation returned to normal," Ganeva said.