Holiday Guide for Bulgaria in 2019

Bulgaria information

Population: 6.93m
Capital: Sofia
Calling Code: (359)
Time Zone: +2 UTC
Currency: Bulgarian lev
Language: Bulgarian

List of National Holidays in Bulgaria in 2019

	Tuesday January 1st New Year's Day Bulgaria: New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
	Sunday March 3rd Liberation Day Bulgaria: March 3rd is Bulgaria's National Day. It honours the Bulgarian volunteers who, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with the assistance of Russian and Romania.
	Monday March 4th Long Weekend! Liberation Day Holiday Bulgaria: Public holiday as Liberation Day falls on a Sunday in 2019
	Friday April 26th Long Weekend! Orthodox Good Friday Bulgaria: Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
	Saturday April 27th Orthodox Holy Saturday Bulgaria: Orthodox Holy Saturday takes place on the Day before Orthodox Easter.
	Sunday April 28th Orthodox Easter Day Bulgaria: Easter is the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus has been placed after his crucifixion.
	Monday April 29th Long Weekend! Orthodox Easter Monday Bulgaria: The Orthodox church uses the Julian calendar for the calculation of Easter, which can often mean that Orthodox Easter falls later than Easter observed elsewhere
	Wednesday May 1st Labour Day Bulgaria: This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
	Monday May 6th Long Weekend! St. George's Day Bulgaria: St. George is the patron saint of Portugal, Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, and many cities across Europe
	Friday May 24th Long Weekend! Culture and Literacy Day Bulgaria: Slavic missionaries Cyril (Constantine) and Metod (Methodius) came to Great Moravia
	Friday September 6th Long Weekend! Unification Day Bulgaria: Commemorates the unification of Eastern Rumelia and the Principality of Bulgaria on this day in 1885
	Sunday September 22nd Independence Day Bulgaria: Bulgarian Independence Day marks Bulgaria's independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908
	Monday September 23rd Long Weekend! Independence Day Holiday (in lieu) Bulgaria: Bulgarian Independence Day marks Bulgaria's independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908
	Tuesday December 24th Christmas Eve Bulgaria: The highlight of Bulgarian Christmas Eve is a feast marking the end of the fasting of advent
	Wednesday December 25th Christmas Day Bulgaria: Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
	Thursday December 26th Second Day of Christmas Bulgaria: Several countries and regions around the world extend their public holidays for Christmas beyond 25th December