Interesting facts about your holiday destination Bulgaria

…Bulgaria is a country with high mountains and over 600 natural springs?

...Bulgaria (founded in 681) is one of the oldest countries in Europe?

…it takes 1 tons of red and 3.000 tons of white rose petals to extract 4.500 liter of rose oil? In terms of quality, rose oil produced in Bulgaria is considered number 1 in the world.

...the most expensive Japanese incense sticks contain Bulgarian rose oil?

…Bulgaria is one of the 5 largest wine producers alongside France, Spain, Italy and Greece?

…John Atanasoff (1903-1995, son of a Bulgarian electrical engineer who immigrated to the USA) is the inventor of the electronic digital calculator (= the computer)?

…the music sent into space by the Voyager space probe is a traditional Bulgarian folk song?

…the gladiator Spartacus, the leader of the first slave uprising against the all-powerful Roman Empire, was of Bulgarian descent?

…Orpheus, the most famous singer in Thracian mythology, came from the Rhodopes (= massif in southern Bulgaria)?

…Bulgaria has over 200 monasteries?

…9 out of 300 sites included in the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage List can be found in Bulgaria?

…the Bulgarians nod their heads and mean “yes” when they shake their heads? And that, dear guests, you should definitely remember, because otherwise there could be small misunderstandings.