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Macedonia to create memorial park in honour of mystic Baba Vanga

Mon, Jan 23 2012 09:55 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Macedonia to create memorial park in honour of mystic Baba Vanga

Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev

The town in Macedonia where mystic Baba Vanga was born intends building a memorial park in her honour.
 
Baba Vanga was born Vangelia Dimitrova in Novo Selo, Strumica, in 1911. At the time of her birth, it was in the Ottoman Empire, after the First Balkan War became part of Bulgaria, later part of Yugoslavia, during World War 2 was occupied by Bulgaria, then returned to Yugoslavia and now is in Macedonia.
 
The online version of Macedonian newspaper Нова Македония quoted mayor Petar Spasov as saying that the centrepiece of the park would be a fountain where for centuries locals and travellers had quenched their thirst.
 
The project is being supported by business people from Novo Selo and from Petrich, Bulgaria, where Vanga moved during World War 2.
 
Local authorities said that the memorial park project would be a link in a story that spans two border regions.
 
Baba Vanga died in 1996. In 2008, her house in Petrich became a museum.
 

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