Editorial photo #1800739 Human Interest

Bulgaria National Day celebration

Hundreds people marks Bulgaria's National day, and 139 years anniversary of the country's liberation from the Ottoman empire with a mass ski race at the winter resort of Pamporovo, some 230 km from the capital of Sofia, on March 3, 2017. All participants were dressed in traditional Bulgarian folklore costumes and carried the national flags, snowboarders roll a giant national flag. The organizators will try to break a new World Guinnes Record for mass ski race with flags next year in the occasion of 140 anniversary of the country's liberation from the Ottoman empire. (Photo by Hristo Rusev/NurPhoto)