"I do things that ignite me. Then I realise they have become businesses," says the bodybuilder who launched a series of successful ventures

Small, often humble, they have withstood storms, earthquakes, sultans and Communist dictators

Ancient rock city outlasts deities, empires, centuries of silence

How Hugo Voeten gathered largest collection of Bulgarian art outside Bulgaria

About 110 years ago, a rebellion started at Petrova Niva. Today it is a pilgrimage site

Bulgaria is world's top producer of lavender

Martin Signorin takes us on eye-opening journey towards true meaning of success

Wonders of Bulgarian idioms

Are you ready for an adventure along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast? Take our test to doublecheck

William Blake (1757-1827), the English poet and painter, respected both for his idiosyncratic views and his expressiveness often tainted with mysticism, has two headstones. One, pictured here, indicates he and his wife were buried "nearby," and the second, unveiled as late as 2018, stands at the exact location. Both are in the small Bunhill Fields cemetery in London

One of the highlights of any trip in the Central Balkan National Park north of the Stara Planina mountain range is this small town famed for its telltale 19th century architecture and the local wood-carving school

Rumen Radev imitates Trump. Trump dislikes the coalition of the willing to support Ukraine so Radev dislikes it, too.

Miroslav Sevlievski, former Energy Minister