Municipality Shoumen

The Shoumen Municipality is situated in the central part of northeastern Bulgaria. In terms of population it ranks 12th among the Bulgarian municipalities of population most of wich lives in Shoumen City. The territory of Shoumen Municipality is crossed by 23 km of Hemous highway (Sofia - Varna), the international roads Е-70 Rousse - Shoumen - Varna; Е-772 Shoumen - Sofia, as well as republican road 1-7 Silistra - Shoumen - Yambol. Shumen is crossed also by the northern railway line Sofia - Varna and the railway connection to Shoumen - Komounari - Southern Bulgaria. Varna airport is at 90 km distance from Shoumen, and Targovishte passenger airport is 20 km away from Shoumen.
Shumen City is located in the foot of the Shoumen Plateau Natural Park wich is a natural sight offering opportunities for various types of tourism - mounting bikes cycling, eco-routes, sports orientation, rock climbing, etc. The Shoumen fortress - an attractive museum in open air in the Shumen plateau.

2013-03-07 Shumen-based Carlsberg brewery starts again after temporary winter break (Business)

2013-03-07 Shumen municipality may terminate contarct with Israeli company for heating utility Toplofikatsia Shumen EAD (Business)

2011-08-17 German company missed to pay the municipality of Shumen nearly BGN 7 million for a business house (Business)

2011-02-28 Shumen municipality wants to manage Madara horseman monument (Culture)

2010-12-10 Carlsberg Bulgaria opens a 5.0 million euro logistics centre in Shumen (Business)

2010-06-08 News about Hemus highway (Transport)

2010-05-10 House-museum Yurdanov`s house in village of Marash (Travel)

2010-02-03 The monument Founders of the Bulgarian State near town of Shumen (Culture)

2009-12-11 Shumen-based Ficosota Synthes announced a competition for media hop (Business)

2009-11-16 Boom of divorces in Bulgaria (Society)

www.shoumen.bg (Shoumen)

www.shumenbg.com (Shoumen)

shumencity.net (Shoumen)

The forum of Shumen (Shoumen)

www.shumencityguide.com (Shoumen)

shumen.freebg.eu (Shoumen)

madara.shumenbg.com (Madara)

www.madara-bg.org (Madara)