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Frozen Fun: Discover Bulgaria's Exciting Ice Rinks (PHOTOS)
The Christmas holidays are approaching and with them the opening of a number of Christmas markets and ice rinks. Here's where and when you can enjoy the ice fun in Bulgaria:
Sofia
Ice rink "Slavia"
Sofia: Free Entrance and Free Skates on the “Yunak” Ice Slide on Saturday
The Bulgarian Sports Federation organizes for everyone, for the 28th time in a row - Winter Challenge '2021.
The event will be held from 12 noon to 20 p.m. on December 4 on the slide "Yunak" in Sofia, during which admission will be free and skates will be free.
Plovdiv Will Open Largest Public Ice Skating Rink in Bulgaria
The lights of the Christmas tree will shine in Plovdiv tonight. For the first time there will be no ceremony to avoid gathering of people.
Moscow opens its biggest outdoor ice rink for winter amid pandemic
Across town one ice rink has been converted into a COVID-19 hospital, but some Moscow residents took to the ice late on Nov. 27 as the city's biggest outdoor rink opened for winter during the pandemic.
Spanish soldiers find bodies in retirement homes
Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases.
The army has been charged with helping to disinfect retirement homes in Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the pandemic.
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Turkish man defies age to pursue love for ice skating
Fehmi Tekelioğlu's love affair with ice skating started with a frozen pond at a park in the Turkish capital 64 years ago. The year was 1956 and he was 9 years old.
Istanbul ice rink offers free skating training
A district municipality in Istanbul has opened an ice rink to provide its fellow citizens skating courses free of charge.
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Ice Skating | Athens | To February 2
The floating ice rink at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is open as part of the venue's holiday program. The rink has been set up at the start of the Canal, offering fans of the Christmasiest of sports the opportunity to enjoy a fantastic "inside view" of the majestic Dancing Fountains. The rink will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Family Fun | Athens | Holidays
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is hosting all sorts of fun family events and activities for children over the holiday period, including workshops in paper marbling and jewelry making, treasure hunts and much, much more. It has also set up an ice-skating rink for the entire holiday season. For details, visit www.snfcc.org.
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SNFCC Celebrations | Athens | To January 31
The Christmas lights are on at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, where the festive atmosphere is complemented with performances by the Greek National Opera Children's Choir and the transformation of the Canal into an ice-skating rink. Weather permitting, the rink will be open to the public every day until January 31 between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. and is free of charge.
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