Economy Blagoevgrad

1 economy

1.1 building
1.2 population
1.3 ethnic linguistic , religious composition
1.4 sports
1.5 football
1.6 arts , culture

economy

because of large number of students (partly due south-west university , american university in city), cross-road location, nature , number of social factors, city has relatively developed economy. there many clothing stores, cafés, , restaurants. district has sixth largest economy in bulgaria, share of gdp, after more industrial districts of sofia city, varna, sofia district, plovdiv, , burgas. number of people registered unemployment below 10%, less average country.

industries of interest:

building

the town attractive investors, both foreign , native. no coincidence blagoevgrad third largest city number of building permits. blagoevgrad growing , small bordering villages of elenovo , strumsko considered part of it. there major overhaul of city park , new bridge built.

currently city has 7 hypermarkets: metro, technopolis, technomarket europe, mr. bricolage, billa, kaufland, , lidl.

blagoevgrad panorama


population
ethnic linguistic , religious composition

according 2011 census, individuals declared ethnic identity distributed follows:

bulgarians: 62,674 (95.6%)
romani: 1,813 (2.8%)
turks: 123 (0.2%)
others: 684 (1.0%)
indefinable: 271 (0.4%)

undeclared: 5,316 (7.5%)

total: 70,881

sports

generally, sports developed, town s traditionally strong sports, handball , basketball, have been in financial crisis , without representation in national leagues in years past (only supporting children , youth ensembles).

the crisis in basketball , handball provides others opportunity pick pace. taekwon-do, in form of falcon club has given blagoevgrad , bulgaria multiple european , world championship medals, including european championship in 2004 (todor kozladerov). baseball little-known sport in bulgaria thrives in blagoevgrad. local team s name buffaloes , manager yassen nedelchev, serves bulgarian baseball federation s president. in 2010, blagoevgrad buffaloes won 17th national title (in 18 attempts).

the town has 2 multi-purpose sports halls, second opened in 2007, has capacity of on 1000 seats , meets requirements of international federation of handball, basketball , volleyball, game area may used competitions rhythmic gymnastics , martial arts. town has 3 well-maintained complexes tennis, football stadium, 6 small playgrounds football, olympic size swimming pool, go-cart track , 1 of best games of baseball in balkans. in 2008 construction began on new sports complex @ south-west university neofit rilski needs of students.

despite well-developed infrastructure sports facilities, blagoevgrad citizens use public space of bachinovo park in order jog, commit sports activities, such football, rugby, , frisbee , develop community sports environment, typical post-soviet culture of bulgaria.

the new facility of aubg, abf center serves occasional facilitator of national volleyball training , competitions.

football

footballer dimitar berbatov blagoevgrad

blagoevgrad has given bulgaria , world football talents such dimitar berbatov , regularly feeds wealthy football clubs. local team investment lacking.

at present in blagoevgrad there 4 actve male clubs, 3 of bear name pirin . group pfc pirin blagoevgrad. pirin authentic, discard in b group in 2005 due obligations social security, usurped group of businessmen d15, , failed return professional football during 2008/09 season , play in western b group . pirin 2001 - team owned former international ivaylo andonov, competed in southwestern b group. in championship of blagoevgrad district league (zone bistritsa ) features 1 blagoevgrad football team - fc athletic.

women s football represented football club sportika - participant in national championship women

arts , culture

francofolies blagoevgrad host of important francophone music festival francofolies , takes place annually in few other locations: la rochelle, france; montreal, canada, spa, belgium. festival has attracted big names, including french pop singers patrick bruel, patricia kaas, zaz, rapper fefe, , groups nouvelle vague , gypsy kings.

bansko international jazz festival blagoevgrad 1 hour away prestigious bansko jazz festival. takes place every year in august. former participants of bansko jazz fest include jamie davis, joss stone, , vasil petrov.

bulgarian national radio awards blagoevgrad chosen bnr host annual awards show, brought city bulgaria s greatest musical talents.

the inaugurated art salon of radio blagoevgrad host of monthly art shows, book opening presentations , exhibits.