Standart News

The cancelled energy project Bourgas-Alexandroupolis will be replaced by a culture-development one. Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borissov inaugurated in Bourgas a large-scale government-funded project Via Pontica (The Road by the Black Sea, after the name of the Roman route that linked Constantinople with northern Black Sea coast). The project aims at the reconstruction of archaeological and cultural monuments that would boost tourism at the Bulgarian southern Black Sea coast, reported National Museum of History Director, Prof Bojidar Dimitrov. Bulgaria's Minister of Finance, Simeon Djankov will submit to the Council of Ministers an ordinance for the allotment of 1.6 million levs for archaeological research and excavation to take place after April in fourteen settlements from Obzor to Turkish border. About 120 000 levs per settlement are envisaged. This initiative comes as a result from the Standart's campaign, Bulgaria's Wonders 2011.


Yova Apostolova