“Lighthouses of Bulgaria” – Free Trilingual Mobile Application in Support of Tourism, Education, Heritage Preservation and International Cooperation
“Lighthouses of Bulgaria” – Free Trilingual Mobile Application in Support of Tourism, Education, Heritage Preservation and International Cooperation

Summary/Abstract: This paper showcases the collaboration of Bela Benova – traveling writer, photographer and lighthouse researcher (pharologist) from Varna, Bulgaria and Aleksei Nemov – IT specialist, developer and photographer from Tallinn, Estonia in the creation and launching of the free trilingual mobile application “Lighthouses of Bulgaria”. Bulgarian Aids to Navigation are presented through technical and historic data, using maps and access guidelines, with rich visual material, including aerial and inside photographs from both authors. “Lighthouses of Bulgaria” App for Android and iOS aims to make the navigation lights known to the general public internationally as attractive tourist sites, interesting education topics and moreover – in their role of important landmarks of Bulgaria’s maritime heritage. As an international project, this app aims to be one of many more to follow, involving new foreign researchers and dedicated to the lighthouses of their countries. Future collaborations can count on a photographic database with thousands of photos from more than 50 countries authored by Benova and Nemov.

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