Google celebrates Bulgaria's Baba Marta

Baba Marta's charming smile is enchanting the virtual world as the home page of Google, the world's biggest web search engine, was also draped in a Bulgarian Martenitsa on March 1 2011.

Google has a list of important dates and holidays for preparing special holiday logos, which it does regularly. They can be both on global scale and can be seen on the main page of Google by a worldwide audience, or they can be local with more limited exposure, as it it the case with Baba Marta.

Baba Marta is a mythical character in Bulgarian folkore, whose name is associated with the month of March.

Martenitsi, traditionally made from twisted red and white thread, are considered to symbolise a wish for good health, and are seen as the heralds of the coming spring and the renewal of life in general.

In 2010, the Bulgarian and Romanian-language versions of the search engine were draped in Martenitsa colours (known as Mărţişor in Romania and Moldova), but this year, Google put the reworked logo on its main site.

Source: sofiaecho