In the mountain villages of Smochevo and Pastra, part of Rila municipality, residents are anticipating difficulties in converting their levs into euros due to the absence of local post offices.

In Bilyana Nikolova's grocery store in Chuprene, a village in northwestern Bulgaria, prices are now displayed in levs and euros on hundreds of food products and other items. Still, the shopkeeper, 53, ...

As Bulgaria adopts the euro, small settlements lacking post offices, ATMs, and other essential services face a particularly difficult transition. One such place is the village of Emen in Veliko ...

STARO ZHELEZARE, Bulgaria (Reuters) - A group of young Polish artists are bringing a splash of colourful street art to a sleepy village in southern Bulgaria with large outdoor murals, featuring locals ...