The festivities started with a consecration ritual of the war colours and a chirch service for health held by His Eminence The Bishop of Sliven Yoanikiy. The celebration continued in a procession from the square in front of the Municipality to the bridge in the Sea garden, where 36 people jumped in the icy sea waters. Yordan Gospodinov – a 17 years old boy named after the saint saved the cross this year.
The 167-th birthday anniversary of the poet-revolutionary Hristo Botev has been celebrated by citizens and official guests with a ritual of presenting flowers and garlands.
Today was the opening of the traditional common exhibition of the three Bourgas painters named after the saint – Yordan Angelov, Yordan Petrov and Yordan Marinov.
