A Bulgarian hotel is among the 100 best hotels in the world.
The hotel “RIU Helios” in Sunny Beach received the prestigious award “TUI Holly 2008″.
The award was presented to Latchezar Todorov – the executive director of “Tera Tour Service” EOOD, at a sumptuous ceremony in Berlin for the 40th anniversary of the tour operator TUI.
The best hotels are being chosen by the tourists, clients of the tour operator, through a survey.
15 000 vacation complexes from all over the world were included in the survey. Over half a million guests have expressed their opinions.
The situated on the first line of Sunny beach hotel is participating in the survey for the first time.

The award is proof for the professionalism of the management of hotel “RUI Helios”, but also for the quality of the tourist service in Bulgaria as a whole, specialists from the industry claim.

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Konstantin Totev’s team of archaeologists dug up the foundations of a building under Trapesitsa Hill considered to be “the first Asen dynasty castle – that of Asen, Teodor and Kaloyan” in Bozhidar Dimitrov’s (director of the National History Museum in Bulgaria) words.
The building is situated in the northern part of the temple on steep rocks which guarded the Arbanassi road in the past. Its walls seem to have been extremely wide – 4, 5 m., having in mind that the usual Mediaeval walls width was 2, 2 m.
According to Dimitrov, the castle is very well preserved and there are living areas, storages, shops, a church and a barrack in it.
Restoration is necessary, however, as some of the stones from the structure look unstable.

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A photo exhibition “Message from eternity” will be opened by the Regional history museum-Plovdiv in the Russian capital.
The exhibition contains 77 photos, which present Plovdiv’s cultural historic heritage and its present day.
The photos will be arranged in the hall of the museum alliance “Museum for history of Moscow”, announced radio Plovdiv.
The event is part of the signed memorandum for cultural cooperation between the History museum of Moscow and the Regional history museum-Plovdiv.

A team of archaeologists found an ancient wooden building serving for cult purposes from the 9th century during the exploration of military machinery on the grounds of the first Bulgarian capital Pliska.
The building served for sacrifices, connected to the earliest religious beliefs of Pliska inhabitants. It was built on the remains of the burnt-up wooden fortress wall of Pliska.

Its foundations were made of red bricks and the walls – of wood.
Two cameras, resembling funeral cameras, were discovered during the digging.
The archaeologists suppose that pagan ceremonies took place here, long after Christianity had become Bulgaria’s main religion.

source: news.bg