Officially the results will be announce by the international jury today. Chair of the jury is prof. Helle Jul from Denmark, and the members are architects from Japan, France and USA.
The projects which took part in the final round will be exhibited in the halls of the National gallery for foreign art. The project of Dominique Perrot was in the typical for him vanguard style. 

The governmental complex will be built on an area of 700 decares on the place of the current military barns in Sofia.

The Frenchman wins over world luminaries like Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster. Other participants in the competition were the “G-3” group of architect Georgi Stoilov, the Italian Massimiliano Fuksas and the consortium “ADAIS – PROJECT”.

The idea of the prime minister Sergei Stanishev and his brother – architect Georgii Stanishev – is ministries and state agencies to be placed in the new “Sofia city”, out of the heavily loaded now center of Sofia. According to the plans for construction on the terrain there skyscrapers could be built.

The international architecture competition was announced by the Stanishev government in the beginning of August 2008. Then it was thought that the whole investment in the future center will probably reach 2 billion euro.

The army has engaged itself to leave the terrain by 2011.

A team of archaeologists presented one of the biggest Thracian rocks complexes for wine producing near the Kardzhali village Yagnevo. The complex is situated on a territory of about 5 square km. and has more than 180 stone installations for wine preparation.

Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine will be linked with a highway route that will guarantee security, speed and comfort of transport.

Balkan Property Exhibition (BalPEx)

More than 100 companies, businessmen, investors and agencies from Bulgaria and neighbor countries will present their suggestions on the expo.

The event will take place in Inter Expo Centre and will continue until Sunday, October 7.

During the last few weeks, Neil Lewis – CEO, Property Secrets has been travelling Europe

in search of locations for his 200% club - Locations that have achieved, or are set to achieve, 200% capital growth over a five year time period.

Bulgaria is now the third largest real estate destination for British investors - should this be a cause for local concern? As of the end of May Bulgaria is the third largest real estate destination for British investor's.

The Association of International Property Professionals (AIPP) described the position of Bulgaria as "phenomenal".

Only Spain and France are ahead as the top two markets for British investments in real estate.

A total of 73,000 tourists visited the Old Bulgarian capital

the city of Veliko Turnovo (Central Bulgaria) in the first six months of 2007. The statistics say that almost 24,000 visitors went sigh seeing in Veliko Turnovo from January to March, 2007. In the next 3 months (April - June) nearly 49,300 tourists visited the city. Considering the tourism visits for the year till now, the expectations are that the interest to Veliko Turnovo, compared to 2006 will be bigger. Arbanasi monastery was visited by 12,141 Bulgarian and foreign tourists since the beginning of the year.

Sofia in Europe's Top 3 of Cities with Most Attractive Property In terms of investing abroad,

Bulgaria's capital of Sofia ranks as the city with the third most attractive property in Europe, according to new research.

The study carried out by Global Property Guide (GPG)

compared several factors which were judged to contribute to the attractiveness of buying property in 12 European capital cities. Some of the factors included prices per square metre, annual rental income, taxes, transaction costs, GDP and legislation in the country, the Sofia Echo reports. Bratislava and Istanbul took the first two positions respectively, while Sofia came in third. Many property analysts have speculated that house prices in Sofia will continue to rise in the years ahead following Bulgaria's accession to the EU.

Bulgaria is often considered particularly attractive because its Black Sea Coast is comparable to Spain's Costa del Sol, but with typical property prices tending to be far lower.

Today, Bulgaria marks one of its brightest days:

the day of the Bulgarian education and culture and the Slavic script. This day is declared official celebration in 1990.

Nearly a century and a half earlier when there was no Bulgarian state and 3rd March, 6th and 22nd September are just dates of the calendar, the language keeps the Bulgarian identity and the culture gives impetus to the national independence struggle. For the first time the Day of St Cyril and Methodius is marked on 11 May 1851. Since 1857 this celebrations starts to be regularly marked in Plovdiv, Tsarigrad, Shoumen and Lom.

The earliest data for marking of the Days of Cyril and Methodius dates back to 12th century. Cyril and Methodius are born in Thessalnoniki and create the “glagolitsa” on an order by the Byzantian emperor Michail III. Prince Rostislav of Great Moravia entrusts them with the conversion of the western Slavs and the conducting of liturgy in own language. The “glagolitsa” does not look like any other European alphabet. All the letters are shaped in one style, in which the main elements are the cross, the triangle and the circle. The cross in symbol of Christianity as a whole.

The triangle is symbol of the Trinity and the circle describes the infinity and eternity of divinity. Thus, the “glagolitsa” with its three main signs-symbols is a way of praise of God who gives everything to people. There are disputes between the scientist about who has created the Cyrillic alphabet, modernised version of which Bulgarians use today. The most spread idea is that it was created by Kliment Ohridski, a student of the two saint brothers. There is no evidence that Cyril and Methodius have ever visited Bulgaria. Their work has been spread throughout the Bulgarian land via their disciples.

Tsar Boris I creates the necessary conditions for the development and distribution of the of the script. In this way, Bulgaria becomes the third (after Constantinople and Rome) religious and spiritual centre of Medieval Europe.