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SOFIA-CITY Apr 2020.Pdf Your complimentary copy of the Sofia City®Info 4 OVERVIEW Guide is available from hotel rooms, hotel receptions and other public areas at the following 18 ACCOMMODATION top-class Hotels & Services Apartments: HOTELS êêê 28 RESTAURANTS êêêêê Hotel Villa Boyana Arena di Serdika Gloria Palace 30 SHOPS Sofia Hotel Balkan Montecito Hotel Hilton Hotel Meg-Lozenetz Hotel Holiday Inn Sofia Hotel Park Hotel Moskva 32 NIGHT LIFE Intercontinental Hotel Sofia Place Hotel êêêê êê 34 CULTURE Art ‘Otel The House Hotel BWP Hotel Expo BW City Hotel ê 38 BG IN BRRIEF BW Premier Sofia easyHotel Coop Hotel 42 USEFUL NUMBERS Grami Hotel Maria Luisa Hotel Metropolitan Hotel Sofia City ® Info Guide Novotel Sofia Hotel Ramada Hotel Publisher: RENTAL DS Ltd. Design: RENTAL DS Ltd. APARTMENT RENTALS & HOSTELS Apartment House Bulgaria On the Cover: VODENITZA Restaurant Block 531 Translation: Translingua Ltd. 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Monthly circulation: 20 000 Central Bus Station Real Estate Agencies Cultural Institutes Top Restaurants & Bars Casinos Travel Agencies COMMERCIAL AND ECONOMIC SECTION OF THE EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA IN: FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, KAZAKHSTAN, MONTENEGRO, MACEDONIA, MOLDOVA, ROMANIA, SERBIA, SLOVAK REPUBLIC, SLOVENIA, THE NETHERLANDS, UK OVERVIEW 3 Inter Expo Center Information Center Sofia (Largo, Chitalnyata) Galleries Real Estate Agencies Top Restaurants & Bars Travel Agencies 4 OVERVIEW public organizations. Sofia accommodates also SOFIA CITY REGION the cultural institutions in Bulgaria. The capital city of Bulgaria is situated in the It has been given several names in the course of geographic center of Southeastern Europe thus history. serving as a natural bridge to the Middle East. • Serdika was the name of the central dwelling of the ancient Thracian tribe known as “Serdi”. • The toponym Sredets was indicative of its FACT & SYMBOLS central location on the Balkan Peninsula. When the city became part of the Bulgarian state at the beginning of the ninth century it acquired this Slavic name and it was soon recognized as one of the most important feudal towns. • Sofia – In nowadays the Bulgarian capital carries the name of St. Sofia (the holy Lady of wisdom), inspired by the name of the church St. Sofia. Sofia Municipality 33, Moskovska Str. (map E3) & 02 937 73 03 www.sofia.bg Population: 1 291 591 Area: 1 310, 8 sq. km The city motto: “Growing without aging” GDP: around 29% of the national GDP Sofia is the biggest and the most dynamic center of the economic life in Bulgaria. Half of the foreign direct investments in Bulgaria are concentrated in the capital. One third of the St. Sofia Church annual tax revenues in the national budget come from Sofia. The region occupies the central part of the CULTURAL HERITAGE Sofia Plain (with average altitude of 550 m) The cultural heritage of Sofia combines traces and it is encircled by the Balkan Mountains (in from the civilizations of the Neolith and the the north) and the Vitosha Mountain and the Thracians, of the ancient Greeks and Romans, Lyulin Mountain (in the south). The area has an of the Slavs and the proto-Bulgarians and the abundance of curative mineral springs (Gorna Ottomans, These tribes and ethnic groups Banya, Ovcha Kupel, Bankya). The Vitosha molded the face of the city through the victories Mountain is an international winter sports and defeats and through the consequent cultural destination. From ancient times, Sofia was well- influences. The socialist realism and the dynamic known as a spa centre, thanks to her 18 healing changes of modernity are still defining the mineral and thermal springs. Those springs development of Sofia and are also part of its have been drawing settlers and conquerors from inextinguishable charm. While be walking on ancient time to nowadays. They are depicted on the streets of Sofia today, people can still see the coat-of-arms of Sofia Municipality. the remnants from older civilizations can still be seen. THROUGH THE CENTURIES As early as the Neolithic age the territory of the Founded seven thousand years ago, Sofia is the present-day million city was inhabited by primitive second oldest European city. The city situated in societies. Archaeologists continue to discover the center of Moesia, Thrace and Macedonia has implements and devices from the Stone, Copper been the official center of the Bulgarian nation for and Bronze ages in the city and in its vicinity. 127 years, since shortly after the Liberation he There are more than 70 Eastern Orthodox was declared for the capital of Bulgaria. churches and monasteries, many of which have Sofia has been the capital of Bulgaria since April become emblematic for the Bulgarian capital. 3, 1879. It is the permanent seat of the National The city center is an eclectic mix of communist Assembly (the Parliament), the Presidency, era neoclassical and West European architecture, the Council of Ministers, the central governing which enchants with its aristocratic atmosphere bodies of various agencies, political parties and and Eastern charm. BULGARIA IN BRIEF 5 6 BULGARIA IN BRIEF BULGARIA IN BRIEF 7 8 OVERVIEW OVERVIEW 9 10 OVERVIEW Sofia’s Symbols National Assembly The University of Sofia (map E3) St. Kliment Ohridski The building of the National Assembly (map E4) (Parliament of the Republic of Bulgaria) is located on the square of the same name, situated on In front of the entrance to the oldest and largest Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. Parliament is the state high school in Bulgaria is standing the bronze body of the legislature power in the country. The sculpture of the brothers Hristo and Evlogi building of the National Assembly was built after Georgievi, with the financial support of which it the Liberation in 1884 on the idea of Konstantin was built. Founded in 1888, in the 1904 the high Jovanovic, an architect from Vienna in Neo- school was declared a university. He is called Renaissance style. The slogan “The Unity Makes of the name of St. Kliment Ohridski, founder of the Strength” is written above the entrance of the the Ohrid Literary School. The building of the National Assembly. Against the Parliament is the Rectorate is located on Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., monument of the Tzar-liberator Alexander II, and and today the university is the largest and most in close proximity are the Sofia University and St. prestigious research center in the country. Alexander Nevski Temple Church. Monument to the Unknown Soldier (map E3) The Ivan Vazov National Theatre (map D3) From the south side of the “St. Sofia” basilica one In the ideal center of Sofia, once you find the Dyakon bronze lion guarded calm the peace of all known Ignatiy Street, the first to will attract your eyes is and unknown warriors who died in battles for the the impressive building of the National Theater. His Fatherland. In the sarcophagus under the lion are neoclassical architecture was the work of Viennese their remains. Behind this symbol of honor and self- architects Ferdinand Fellner and Herman Helmer. The sacrifice, next to the stone memorial plate, is burning construction of the theater began in 1904, but he was the eternal fire brought by Shipka. His flame symbolizes officially opened in 1907 with a special performance. the unshakeable relationship of today’s generations The theater, bearing the name of the patriarch of with the past. The monument is the place where the Bulgarian literature Ivan Vazov, always maintains a rich most important state ceremonies are held and the repertoire of contemporary and classic titles, some of national holiday is remarked, also and military parades which has been repeatedly presented to the public. are being held. According to the state and diplomatic Around the fountain in front of the theater are often held protocol, here is the place the foreign delegations put children’s fairs, concerts, charity events. on wreaths in sign of respect. OVERVIEW 11 Eagle’s bridge (map F4) Above the Perlovska River the wind hug the bronze “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” wings of four eagles. They are the guardians of the National Library bridge. Orlov most (Eagle’s Bridge) is located near the park Borisova gradina, Ariana Lake, Vasil Levski (map F3) National Stadium and Sofia University. Built in honor Do you know the wonderful feeling of holding of the prisoners from Diarberkir, the Bridge, designed a book from paper in your hands? Breathe the in 1891 by Adolf Vaclav Kolar and Vaclav Proshek, is smell of ink? In the National Library, which bears the first crossroad, which to take you towards the heart the names of the Slavic first teachers - the holy of Sofia. brothers Cyril and Methodius, which founder the Cyrillic alphabet, there are over 7 million titles. Those titles are from all over the world. And they are in all language. The library, founded on 17 June 1879, was located in two different buildings, destroyed during the Anglo-American bombing over Sofia in 1944. Rebuilt and opened in 1953, today the National Library is the largest public repository of books in Bulgaria. Behind the Library is a Doctor’s Garden Park, in front of it - the National Academy of Arts, and next to it - the The Banya Bashi Mosque Sofia University, a metro station and bus stops, (map C2) restaurants and galleries.
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