An off-the-cuff tweet by Elon Musk has left Bulgarians over the moon, hoping the world's richest man may be planning to visit the EU's poorest region.
The Tesla, SpaceX and now Twitter boss -- who is not immune to bouts of online whimsy -- recently commented on an image of the towering Belogradchik Rocks in northwestern Bulgaria under menacing clouds.Bulgarians were quick to educate him.
An official invite was promptly dispatched, accompanied by a silver rhyton drinking horn, a symbol of the ancient Thracian civilisation that Bulgaria prides itself on.Bulgaria's Belogradchik fortress has been used a backdrop for the Elden Ring video gameThe plot thickened when the chef of a high-end restaurant about 20 kilometres from Belogradchik published an email purportedly from SpaceX hinting at a visit by Musk in April 2023.
The Belogradchik fortress awaits its"messiah", political scientist Dimitar Ganev joked on Bulgarian television. Also, few of the 5,500 inhabitants of the little town at the foot of the fortress were getting that excited. More than 40 percent of the region's people live below the poverty line, making it the EU's poorest, according to Eurostat.
Tourism numbers increased sharply after the Belogradchik Rocks were named as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature poll by a Swiss foundation in 2007.
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