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... that the ancient ritual of barefooted dancing on smouldering embers, nestinarstvo, emerged in several remote villages in the Strandzha Mountains?
... that Lavov most (pictured) and Orlov most, two bridges in the centre of Sofia, were built by the Czech Prošek family in 1889-1891?
... that American actress and wife of Tom Hanks Rita Wilson is the daughter of a Muslim Bulgarian?
... that the early 17th-century church in the village of Dobarsko features frescoes of Jesus taking off in a rocket?

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