A Roma girl poses during an open-air 'bride market' in the central village of Mogila, on March 12. The "bride market" -- held four times a year on various religious holidays during the spring and ...

Instead, young eligible bachelors from central Bulgaria, are here to find themselves a wife at a traditional "bride market". More than 2,000 Roma travellers converged on Mogila on one of the first ...

The first Saturday in Lent feels like any other market day in this tiny village in central Bulgaria, but fruit and vegetable stalls are nowhere to be seen among the milling patrons. Instead, young ...