Recreation

Kiteboarders from all over the country will gather in Burgas for the traditional Black Sea Kite Cup 2019 regatta, said the press office of Burgas Municipality. The race is part of the agenda of the Bulgarian Sailing Federation and is held for the 10th consecutive year.

The parents of two sisters who drowned in a hotel swimming pool while on holiday on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes on Wednesday evening have confirmed that the teenagers did not know how to swim, local newspaper Rodiaki has reported.

Mountain Rescue Service teams have helped two injured paragliders, the Mountain Rescue Service told Focus News Agency. The two men were injured in paragliding accidents near Dupnitsa. The rescuers have conducted two operations. One of the men is a Japanese. Both were taken to hospital in good condition.

The Regional Health Inspectorate closed 6 swimming pools in Sofia because of a lack of water quality.

Dr Desislava Dragancheva, Head of State Health Control Department, said in the morning block of BNT that the violations have been removed and the pools are already open.

Kerpe Bay in the northwestern province of Kocaeli, is a divers' paradise with year-round diving conditions and remains of a Roman-era breakwater, canyons, caverns and caves. 

First diving took place on June 15 to a passenger plane lowered into the sea a day earlier in northwestern Turkey to boost scuba diving tourism.       

Lead archeologist for the project of opening wrecks to visitors Dimitris Kourkoumelis dives to a 5th Century BC shipwreck, the first ancient shipwreck to be opened to the public in Greece, including to recreational divers who will be able to visit the wreck itself, near the coast of Peristera, Greece.

A group of tourists rafting in the southern province of Antalya's Düden Waterfall have been saved from an accident that could have been deadly, thanks to security barriers in the middle of a creek, as locals also rushed to their rescue.

Amidst feverish preparations for the Piraeus mayor election in May, Mayor Yannis Moralis outlined the major public works in the Piraeus city centre that have been completed during his term in a post on his personal Facebook account wall.

The Bankya Mineral Bath will be open next year and will function as a public spa center, said Yordanka Fandakova, mayor of Sofia.
The municipality has not yet decided whether to run the site alone or with the help of external management.

After 30 years of ruin, Bankya's emblem, the Royal Mineral Bath, quickly returns to its brilliance.