Sofia Events

Marenitsa: February-March, the coming of spring is celebrated by wearing red and white tassels, throughout the city

St Trifon's Day: the 14th of February, a vine growing and wine making festival, villages outside the city

Liberation Day: the 3rd of March, national holiday celebrating liberation from Ottoman rule in 1878, throughout the city

Orthodox Easter: April, throughout the city

Labour Day: the 1st of May, national holiday, throughout the city

St George's Day: the 6th of May, Orthodox festival and official holiday, also agricultural celebration heralding the end of spring and beginning of summer, throughout the city

Bulgarian Culture and Slavonic Script Day: the 24th of May, national holiday honouring Saints Cyril and Methodius for devising the Bulgarian alphabet, throughout the city

Festival of European Co-productions: early June, international annual non-competitive feature film festival, Lumičre Cinema, NDK

Birthday of St John of Rila: on the 18th of August at the Rila Monastery

Folk Music Festival: on the first weekend of August in Koprivshtitsa
International Folklore Festival: on the last week of August in Plovdiv

Day of Unification: on the 6th of September, national holiday, throughout the city

Independence Day: national holiday, on the 22nd of September, throughout the city

Feast Day of St John of Rila: on the 19th of October at the Rila Monastery

Kinomania: in November, three weeks long film festival, showing the newest and best international and Bulgarian films, NDK

St Nicholas' Day: on the 12th of December, throughout the city

Christmas: national holiday - most families celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December, although traditional Orthodox Christmas is on the 7th of January, 25-26 December, throughout the city

New Year's Eve: on the 31st of December, festivities, throughout the city