Portal:Bulgaria/Did you know/1


 * ... that the ancient ritual of barefooted dancing on smouldering embers, nestinarstvo, emerged in several remote villages in the Strandzha Mountains?


 * ... that Lavov most (pictured) and Orlov most, two bridges in the centre of Sofia, were built by the Czech Prošek family in 1889-1891?


 * ... that American actress and wife of Tom Hanks Rita Wilson is the daughter of a Muslim Bulgarian?


 * ... that the early 17th-century church in the village of Dobarsko features frescoes of Jesus taking off in a rocket?