Sofia City Province

New buildings in the center of Sofia will not be higher than 75 meters. If they are built at the foot of Vitosha Mountain - the maximum admissible height is 15 meters. This was made clear by the words of the chief architect of Sofia Zdravko Zdravkov, on the occasion of the report on the new look of the capital, prepared by the Danish urban planner Jan Geel, reports Darik. 

From tomorrow begins the repair of the Eastern tangent of Sofia. The section of Trakia Motorway will be repaired to the North Speed ​​Tangent, API reported.

The national eco campaign ''Old Paper for New Book '' is held for the 5th consecutive year in Bulgaria.

Sofia, Plovdiv, Haskovo, Ruse and Burgas municipalities are hosting this year's initiative. The eco campaign allows children to learn more about recycling, nature protection and separate waste collection.

Between 12 and 17 September in Sofia again will be held the traveling exhibition "Alley of the Book".

The initiative has already passed through Varna and Plovdiv.

The exhibition will stop in the center of Sofia, оn Vitosha Boulevard - from the monument of Aleko Konstantinov to Gladson Str.

More than 50 Bulgarian publishers will participate during the book exhibition.

Residents of Sofia's Strelbishte quarter formed a live chain at the junction of Bulgaria and Ivan Geshov's boulevards for about half an hour yesterday evening, reported Standart News. 

They protested the plans of a private construction company to build a skyscraper in the place of a small garden in their neighborhood.

The lift in Dragalevtsi stopped operating. Last Friday, the lift was damaged and now the owner of ''Vitosha Ski'' checks the cause of the accident, reported bTV. 

The company did not commit to forecasting when the facility would work again.

If you want to get from Dragalevtsi to Cherni Vrah, you have to do it by foot.

Skyscrapers will be built in only three areas in Sofia and there will be no such buildings in the historic city center. This was announced by the MPs from GERB at the suggestion of the chief architect of Sofia, Zdravko Zdravkov, according to bTV. 

Sofia criminologists arrested a 57-year-old man for committing a serious criminal offence, the press centre of the Republic of Bulgaria Prosecutor's Office announced.

Electricity supply has been cut in several southern neighborhoods in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

These include Gorna Banya, Lozenets, Vitosha and Kinotsentar, electricity distribution company CEZ has said on its website.

Power is gradually being restored in the affected areas, accoring to CEZ. 

Construction of the new section of the second line of the underground in the Bulgarian capital is going according to schedule and the new Vitosha station is expected to be opened in July.

This was stated by Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandakova who inspected the progress of construction on Tuesday.