In the central part of Sofia is located the oldest Botanical Garden in Bulgaria established in 1892 by the first Professor of Botany Dr. Stefan Georgiev. During the garden opening ceremony a summer oak (Quercus robur L.) was planted and among it whose roots the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand put a gold...

Memorial Temple “St. Alexander Nevski” – Sofia City

The cathedral temple “St. Alexander Nevski” is considered a symbol of the Bulgarian capital. It is located in the center of Sofia, at the eponymous square. The reflection of its golden domes attracts attention from miles away. 

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Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. 1.26 million people live in the city and 1.68 million people live in its metropolitan area. The city is at the foot of Vitosha Mountain in the western part of the country, within a 50 kilometres (31 mi) drive from the Serbian border. Being in the...

The church “St. Sofia” (God’s Wisdom) is situated in the center of Bulgaria’s capital, in close proximity to the Monumental Temple “Alexander Nevski”. It is one of the oldest churches in Sofia and its history is closely related to the history of the city. Nowadays the temple is considered one of...

"Воуаnа Wаtеrfаll" іѕ thе nаmе оf thе Воуаnа Rіvеr, lосаtеd nеаr thе сіtу оf Ѕоfіа, 5 km frоm thе сеntrе оf Воуаnа. Іt іѕ thе bіggеѕt wаtеrfаll оn thе tеrrіtоrу оf thе Vіtоѕhа Моuntаіn.  Тhе wаtеr drорѕ frоm 20 m.

Іn сlеаr ѕрrіng dауѕ thе "Воуаnа' wаtеrfаll саn bе ѕееn frоm dоwntоwn. D...

Near the Dragalevtsi residential area of Sofia, about 1.5 kilometers southwest is the Dragalevski monastery “St. Mary of Vitosha”. It was established by Tsar Ivan Alexander (ruled 1331 – 1371 AD) in about 1341 and remained after the Ottoman conquest in 1382. The monastery church was renovated and...

The Kokalyanski Monastery „St. Archangel Michael” lies a few kilometers from the village of Kokalyane, in the eastern part of Plana Mountain. It used to be linked by a road with the Bistrishki, Dragalevski and Boyanski monasteries. Nearby the fortress of Urvich was situated. This was one of the l...

The medieval Krakra Fortress is situated on a relatively small rocky plateau at the southwestern part of the town of Pernik.

The preserved remains outline a polygonal fortress which is believed to have been built during the reign of Khan Omurtag (814-831). The wall of the fortress is 2 metr...

The International Music Festival “Music Weeks in Sofia” presents to the Bulgarian audience the most significant of the global and Bulgarian music and performance. The first edition of the festival was in May 1970. Gradually the event turned into the most significant international musical event in...

Lions' Bridge (Bulgarian: Лъвов мост; Lavov most) is a bridge over the Vladaya River in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, built 1889-1891 by Czech architect Vaclav Prosek, his brother Jozef and his cousins Bohdan and Jiri. It gives the name to the important and busy junction of Marie...

The National Anthropological Museum is located in Sofia, 73 Tsarigradsko Shose Blvd., next to the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is one of several museums within the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and is under the auspices the Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthrop...

The National Military Museum in Sofia owns and preserves over 1 million cultural valuables connected with the Bulgarian and foreign military history. They are completed in different collections according to their type and purpose.

The permanent exposition is displayed on an area of 2800 km....

Boyana Church of St. Nicholas and St. Pantaleimon is situated at the foot of Vitosha Mountain, in Boyana Housing Estate in Sofia. It is one of the few medieval monuments of Christian art that have survived until the present day.

The church is one of the 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria and...

National museum of natural history is the only national institution directly engaged with the preservation of scientific collections of live and non-live nature from Bulgaria and the world. The study of biodiversity, environmental protection and the evolution of organisms are the museum’s major p...

The National Church Museum of History and Archaeology is situated in the building of the Theological Faculty of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski on St. Nedelyasquare in the center of Sofia.

The remarkable building was designed by Bulgarian and foreign architects and artists and was bui...

The National Art Gallery is the largest and the most representative museum of the Bulgarian fine arts in the country. It is housed in the building of the former royal palace (declared a cultural monument in 1978), together with the National Ethnographic Museum. 

The beginning of the co...

The oldest and best preserved monument of architecture since Roman times in Sofia is the rotunda church St. George. It was built in the beginning of the 4th century AD and, was considered, during the reign of the roman emperor Constantine the Great (reigned 306 – 337) and the flourishing of the a...

The Russian church “St. Nikolay” is located in the center of Sofia, at the intersection of Rakovska and Tsar Osvoboditel streets. It is one of the most remarkable buildings in Sofia. It was built in the period between 1907 and 1914 by a project of the Russian architect M. Preobrazhensky on the in...