There is an old legend narrating that God summoned all the peoples on the earth to give each a piece of nature's beauty.
Every people had its share of God's creation. It so happened that Bulgarians turned up late and there was no earthly beauty left for God to give them. So God presented them with a piece of heaven..
Situated in South - Eastern Europe, in the heart of the Balkan ninsula, Bulgaria can boast a unique combination of breathtaking high mountains, luscious valleys, azure sea and fine white sands together with the temperate climate, this unrivalled scenery makes the country ideal for both summer and winter tourism. The 13th century turblent history of its people, marked with grat upheavals, only turns Bulgaria into an even more exciting place to visit.
The old state of Bulgaria was established in 681 AD by the Bulgars - a Turkic people - and the slavs. In the 9th century, the Thessloniki brothers Cyil and Methodius created the slavonic script (later know as cyrilic alphabet) that was to lay the foundation for great literaryand cultural achievements. Overrun by the Ottoman turks in 1393, the country was in a state of non-existence for almost five hundred years, but regained its independence in 1878. After world war II, Bulgaria entered in eastern communist block. In November 1989 however, the totalitarian regime was overthrown and since then the country been undergoing democratic changes which has lead to great iconomic increace and properties rising prices.
