Festivals and Traditions

it is celebrated on March 3rd and and honours the Bulgarian volunteers who, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with the assistance of Russian and Romanian forces, liberated Bulgaria from almost 500 years of Ottoman rule. (a)  

• Liberation Day
• Baba Marta's Day
• Unification Day
• Bulgarian Armed Force Day

It celebrates our deep connection to the Rosa Damascena – the Bulgarian oil- bearing rose and all the gifts it has blessed the Rose Valley with for centuries. (a)  

• Rose Festival
• Plum Festival
• Liberation Day
• Unification Day

It is the Day of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius (a)  

• Bulgarian Alphabet Day
• Baba Marta's Day
• Unification Day
• New Year's Day

On March 1st people wear Martenitsas for a certain period, the end of which is usually associated with the first signs of spring – seeing a stork or a fruit tree in blossom. (a)  

• Baba Marta's Day
• Liberation Day
• Halloween
• Christmas

It is also known as The Day of Bravery and it's celebrated on May 6th. (a)  

• Bulgarian Armed Forces Day
• Unification Day
• Liberation Day
• Independence Day

The festival is traditionally held in the last week of September. The main focus of the celebration is connected with the cultivation of the plum culture and the producing of Troyan plum brandy and other plum products. (a)  

• Bulgarian plum festival
• Rose festival
• Christmas
• Christmas Eve

The Independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire was proclaimed on 5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1908 in the old capital of Tarnovo by Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who afterwards took the title "Tsar". (a)  

• Independence Day
• Unification Day
• Bulgarian Armed Forces Day
• Liberation Day

On September 6th, we commemorate the unification of Eastern Rumelia and Bulgaria in 1885. (a)  

• Unification Day
• Liberation Day
• Independence Day
• Bulgarian Armed Forces Day

The meal should traditionally have an odd number of dishes in it (normally 7, 9 or 11) and an odd number of people sitting around the table. (a)  

• Christmas Eve
• Unification Day
• New Year's Day
• Christmas

The day is devoted to the bookmen, the enligheteners, the fighters for national liberation who have preserved through the centuries the spiritual values of the nation and its moral

• 1st November - Day of the Bulgairan National Revival Leaders

• Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature Day

• Independence Day

• Liberation Day