Varna

This year's main priorities of the municipality are the education, the establishment of Varna as a year-round tourist destination, and the attraction of more funds for European programs.

Best time to visit: Summer is a good time to head to Varna, but avoid peak tourist -months of July and August, when crowds are thick and prices high.

In brief, First Alley is a project by Holding Varna, a corporate entity controlled by the group of businessmen known in Varna as TIM, which aims to turn the beach area into a large-scale tourism destination by building a yacht basin, five hotels (four three-storeys high and one 10-storey high, each of 400 beds), restaurants, amusement parks, sport facilities and an aqua park.

Alexander Kuperman, deputy chairman of the RIB board, in a statement on the bank's Web site, said, 'Our Customer proposals and requests have been the main reasons why we took the decision to open a branch in Varna. Varna is a sea port just like Riga or Odessa, and our customers own terminals, grain storages and other business facilities located there.

It was Jorge Esquivel, who later became Alicia Alonso's great partner, in the Don Quixote pas de deux at the Varna Ballet Competitions.

They are prepared within the framework of the Student Laboratory "Varna - city for the people".

On the one side, there are the corporate interests of Holding Varna, the company which wants to develop the city's central beach avenue, and on the other side, there are a dozen NGOs supported by the Zelenite (The Greens) party, who see nothing but corruption and abuse of the law behind the deal.

A key topic on the agenda of the meeting was the recent disagreements between power distributor CEZ Bulgaria and the state, and the future of the Varna TPP in particular.

June 23 has been declared a national day of mourning in Bulgaria for the victims of the floods in the Black Sea city of Varna and in Dobrich.

Raging waters have taken away entire roads, plumbing and electric cables in Asparuhovo district in the Black Sea city of Varna, Petar Garbuzov from Varna Municipality announced.He advised people to avoid traveling to the district without "a serious motive" to do so.