President Rumen Radev will participate in the commemoration of the Day of Botev and those who died for the freedom and independence of Bulgaria in Vratsa from 21:00, the press office of the head of state announced. Rumen Radev will deliver a speech on the 148th anniversary of the feat of the poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev and his band, and on Hristo Botev Square a solemn dawn-check will be held in the city.
Acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev will attend the event, the government press office announced.
On the square “Hristo Botev“ In Vratsa will also be the Acting Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov and the Chief of Defense Adm. Emil Eftimov, the Ministry of Defense announced.
The beginning of the solemn day will be marked with a memorial service for Hristo Botev and his troupe in the church of “St. Ascension“ at 8:30 a.m., half an hour later the recital "With poems and songs along Botevata Alley" will be held. in the footsteps of Botev”, BTA reported.
At 9:30 a.m., a children's festival will begin in front of the Vratsa Municipality building. There will be various workshops and fun games suitable for children of all age groups, even the youngest ones, the Municipality of Vratsa told BTA. Children will have fun with drawings on asphalt, build with a constructor, learn how to play with different types of dolls, make soap bubbles. The girls and boys of “Interact“ will show how to paint with salt, volunteers from the Bulgarian Youth Red Cross will also participate, who have also prepared various activities, there will also be a Bibliobus full of children's books.
From 11:00, the children's favorite parade of fairy-tale characters will begin, and all participants will receive a gift of a helium balloon. There will also be ice cream for all children, said the Municipality of Vratsa.
The ceremonial meeting of the Municipal Council, at which the title “Honorary Citizen of Vratsa“ and the “Vratsa Award” will be awarded, is from 10:00 a.m. in the City Concert Hall. In the early afternoon, there will be the traditional pilgrimage to Botev's lobular place – the city of Kamarata in the Vrachan Balkan.
The evening before the solemn dawn-check will be the concert dedicated to the 148th anniversary of the feat of the revolutionary poet and his troupe. The director of the concert is arch. Plamen Miryanov, ensemble “Filip Kutev“, quartet “Army song“, Symphonies – Vratsa, choir “Gena Dimitrova“ – Pleven and the singers Guna Dimitrova and Raiko Kirilov.
The dawn-check in memory of Hristo Botev, his Chetniks and those who died for the freedom of Bulgaria is from 21:00 on the central square.