The huge flow of cars on our roads, the carbon emissions spewed by them every day, the incessant engine noise and the smog hanging over big cities all mean that modern societies have to change their driving habits. That process…

The importance of where our bread is made Since the Neolithic period, bread has always been treated with respect and constituted an integral part of people’s lives. Its persistence over epochs and changing habits, across cultures and geographical coordinates, has…

On 11 February, the Regional Urban Development Fund (RUDF) held a cocktail party to celebrate the successful negotiation of funds to be allocated in the first investment cycle under the JESSICA initiative, which is part of the Operational Programme for…

The Yunatzi (strongmen) Development of a healthy mind and body; moral education and character-building of the young generation; spiritual and cultural education of the youth; adoption of European values and ideas. Those are some of the ideals of the Yunashki…

We can all agree that our cities aren’t the most pleasant places to live in the world. They’d even find it difficult to get into the top 10 of the Balkan championship in Cosiness, Cleanliness and Comfort. If we tried…

Let’s imagine that the city – any city – is a giant, complicated strategy game. It is played on many levels by countless known and unknown characters, as a daily battle with unforeseeable forces, global trends, natural disasters, economic laws…

1. “A palace of swimmers has been opened in Stara Zagora.” This was the front-page headline of newspaper Septemvri on 29 April 1972. The Olympic-sized pool had been completed a year earlier and was the second largest in the country. Until then,…