Cultural Institutes
The 14th edition of the European Night of Museums, was held on the 19th of May, in Sofia.
The third edition of the project was held from the 26th of March to the 6th of May in the Metro and on the "National Palace of Culture" metro station, in Sofia.
From the 1st of July 2017, Hungary took over the Presidency of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic) for one year.
On 23rd of March the cultural agency of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Bulgaria invited its compatriots and their friends to celebrate the upcoming Iranian New Year.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Mexican writer, there was a lecture and an exhibition of the artist Atanas Gadzhev at the Cervantes Institute in Sofia on the 22nd of February.
The French Institute in Bulgaria organized a concert of the groups Filetta and Eva Quartet on the 20th of February in the "Bulgaria" Hall. The event was personally opened by H. E. Mr. Eric Lebédel, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic in Bulgaria.