Portal:Bulgaria/Did you know/1

• ... 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?