of the major yearly events are: Festival of Bulgarian culture and the Cyrillic script—24 and 25 May Festival of Gorna Oryahovitsa—28 May Golden Lion International Arm wrestling Tournament—28 May International Festival of Tourist Songs—3–5 June International Folklore Festival (children)—12–18 June International Folklore Festival (adults)—1–6 August Petropavlovski (St. Peter and Paul) National Folklore Festival Communication Communication center "Nadezhda 1869" Theaters Youth Theater "Alternative" at the National Chitalishte "Napredak - 1869" - Gorna Oryahovitsa The summer theater in Gorna Oryahovitsa has an open stage and has 2000 seats. In the building cultural activity is developed by the National Chitalishte "Bratya Grancharovi", founded in 2002. Museum City History Museum Annual events For the last 15 years Gorna Oryahovitsa has been making efforts to establish itself as a festival center of national and international importance. Some of the more important regular annual events held in the city are: Feast of Bulgarian culture and Slavic writing - May 24 and 25 Holiday of the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa - May 29 National chamber dance competition National meeting of the centennial community centers - every year in May All-Bulgarian Chitalishte Fair - every year in May Feast of Gorno Oryahov sudzuk (sausage) - May 27 International youth competition for popular song "New Music" - every year in June International Tourist Song Festival - June 3–5 Rahovche International Children's Festival International Folklore Festival - August 1–6 National Peter and Paul Festival of Folk Art Annual concerts of the music school at Chitalishte "Napredak" Upper Open Air Rock Festival - the last week of September, Bratya Grancharovi Community Center Sport The town has a well-developed sport centre as the major sports practised are: football, basketball, arm Wrestling, gymnastics, badminton, athletics, Wrestling, sambo, Boxing. In 1935 in Gorna Oryahovitsa was created Sport club Nikola Petrov. Later the club was renamed as SC Borislav. Its stadium was built in 1949 in the neighborhood of Kaltinets. FC Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa FC Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa was established in 1932. In 1935 in the North part of the town were created the first stadium "Unak". In 1963/1964 the club plays on Bulgarian first league. Transport Gorna Oryahovitsa is a major railway junction in northern Bulgaria. In the town is one of the six international airports in Bulgaria—Gorna Oryahovitsa Airport, with flight to or from Sofia taking about 30 minutes. It is 12 kilometers away situated from the old capital of Bulgaria - Veliko