Varna Becomes “Bulgaria’s Best City to Live in” for Second Year in a Row
November 18th, 200827 October 2008, Monday, by Novinite.com
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| The Program Director of the Darik Radio Konstantin Valkov (left) presents the Varna Mayor Kiril Yordanov (middle) with the prize for “Bulgaria’s Best City to Live in”. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency) |
Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna won the competition for “Bulgaria’s Best City to Live in”, which is organized by the National Darik Radio and the 24 Chasa Daily.
The Bulgarian “Black Sea capital” won the first place with 276 points total. The country’s second largest city of Plovdiv was ranked second with 272 points. The medieval capital Veliko Turnovo made it to third position with 268 points.
In addition to the main award, this year’s competition featured also four additional awards. The city of Plovdiv was awarded the “Culture City” prize, the capital Sofia got the “Business City” award, Veliko Turnovo was declared “The Most Beautiful City”, and the town of Teteven received the “Eco-Town” award.
A total of 40 Bulgarian cities and towns were included into the competition. They were ranked according to 44 different criteria including demographic growth, architecture, airport access, Internet access at public spots, sunny days, suicides, air quality, administrative services, etc.
In the first edition of the competition in 2007, Varna was ranked first again, followed by Veliko Turnovo, and Plovdiv.
