Balkan Mountains

We are marking 140 years of the heroic battles of the Shipka Peak, which have remained in the history of the Shipka Epopee. Hundreds of Bulgarians ascend the historic peak every year to pay tribute to the heroes who died for Bulgaria's freedom, BGNES reported.

Hundreds of workers at the Emko arms factory protest and threatened to block the Pass of the Republic in Stara Planina. Reports Vesti

The ammunitions company is the second such that the state has revoked work permissions in the last weeks, along with the Rousse "Dunarit".

There are about 1000 people working in Emko, mainly from Tryavna, who are afraid to lose their livelihood.

The 10th edition of the Festival of Folklore Costumes in the Bulgarian Zheravna Architectural Reserve in Stara Planina will be held from August 18th to August 20th, reported BNR. .

The festival was created in 2008 at the idea of Hristo Dimitrov - choreographer and director of the folk ensemble ''Bulgare''.

Sirens are to go off across Bulgaria on Tuesday noon to commemorate the anniversary of the death of poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev.

There is 10cm of snow at Petrohan pass, the road has been cleaned and sand has been placed, the officer on duty at Montana District Road Administration told Radio FOCUS.

A petition to build a tunnel under the Petrohan Pass in northwestern Bulgaria has gathered nearly 50 000 signatures, organizers say.

Earlier, residents of northwestern Bulgaria put forward a petition that, in their words, would make impoverished Western Bulgaria better connected to the capital Sofia and more attractive to investors.

Residents of northwestern Bulgaria are gathering signatures in a petition for a referendum on whether a tunnel should be built under the Petrohan mountain pass.

Rescuers have found the body of Miroslav Kasovski, the IT programmer who went missing in Stara Planina (the Balkan Mountains) last week.

The body was in a remote area of the mountain, Focus News Agency quotes authorities as saying.

A six-day search was conducted to find Kasovski, the latter two (Monday and Tuesday) involving the armed forces and military equipment.

A search and rescue operation is to be renewed on Tuesday in the Stara Planina mountain for a 34-year-old man who went missing last week.

On Monday, the army joined the search, with 296 troops looking around the area.

Army vehicles and a drone have also been dispatched to take part in the operation.

In an article published in The Guardian on Sunday, Kate Eshelby argues that there is much more to Bulgaria than the cheap beach and ski holiday packages the country is best known to foreign tourists.