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On April 12, 1961, Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 1

The Easter bunny has its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore.

Holy Week is the last week of Lent, the week immediately preceding Easter Sunday.

Name day of everyone named after a flower, bush or tree (Tsvetelina, Lilia, Yavor, Yassen, Roza, Iglika, Violeta, Varban, Latinka, Temenuga, Karamfila, Zdravko, Kamelia etc).

On April 8 we mark International Roma Day. On the occasion Sofia will be the venue of a forum entitled “European funds: possibilities for support of Roma integration”.

Name day for everyone having the name of  Lazar, Lazo, Lazarina, Lara.

There are quite a few nations today having in their calendar the April 1st Fools Day. For better or worse, we, Bulgarians, are among them.

In 1916, at midnight on 31st of March, Bulgaria “jumps” into future – instead of having April 1st as the next day, Bulgarians had April 14th….

March 27th is celebrated each year arounf the world as the International Day of Theater.

Name day of everyone named Blagovest/à, Blagoy, Blaga, Vangel, Evangelina, Bonka.Ritual table: fish (baked or boiled), flat cake, onion pastry.