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Park Museum Vrana

Situated far from the city center, the park museum Vrana isn't so popular and rarely visited by tourists. It was once the primary residence of the Bulgarian royal family. The property includes a park of 950 acres, a farm of 1,000 acres and two connected buildings by forming the palace complex. The first one was built in 1904 as a ...

The zoological garden of Sofia

The Sofia Zoo is one of the most loved and visited attractions in the Bulgaria's capital. It is part of the official list of the one hundred national tourist attractions and has the largest surface area and diversity of animal species on the Balkan Peninsula. The zoological garden in Sofia was created in 1888 by Prince Ferdinand who attracted specialists ...

Eat delicious and healthy food at Made in Home

Made in Home is a place with a style of its own - it has a charming interior with vintage furniture of different type and shape, just like collected from old houses and farms ... and all this giving you a pleasant feeling of warmth and like being at home.In the menu you can find a great choice of local ...

The amphitheater at Arena di Serdica hotel

In 2004 during the construction of one of the Sofia hotels, the builders found accidentally а wall from Roman times. Soon after that archaeological excavations started and the amphitheater of ancient Sofia (Serdica) was discovered. In the ancient times, Serdica was the capital of the eastern province Inner Dacia of the Roman Empire and was a large and well-developed city, ...

The hydro park Windmills near Sofia

The hydro park Watermills is a recently built complex with pools, parks and different attractions and is located approximately at 20 km away from the Sofia's city center (to the east, near the village of Gorna Malina). If you would like to spend a day outside of Sofia and its busy streets, visiting the park could be an excellent idea ...

The rotunda of St. George - the oldest preserved building in Sofia

Located in the heart of Sofia, in an yard between the Presidency of Bulgaria and the Sheraton hotel, the rotunda / church of St. George is currently the oldest preserved building in Sofia. It was built back in the 4th century by the Romans and it was a part then by a larger archaeological complex with a street and some ...

Cakey Bakey - whatever you choose, you just can't go wrong

Located on one of the most central streets in Sofia (the Shipka street), Cakey Bakey is one of these bakeries and pastry shops, in which when you enter you see so many nice things in the pastry showcase, that you face a tough choice what to get exactly :) The amazing thing about Cakey Bakey is that whatever you choose, ...

The house museum Ivan Vazov

Ivan Vazov was one of the famoust Bulgarian poets, novelists and playwrighters and is referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". Five years after his death in 1921, the house in which he has lived and worked for the longest time in his life has been opened as a museum. The house itself was built in 1895 and is ...

The Thirsty Dragon - may be a little weird name, but a place with a lot of charm and delicious food

If you walk down the calm and beatiful street "13th March" in Sofia city center, you'll be certainly be attracted by this old and nice, ivy-covered house - it's a small restaurant with the interesting name "Thirsty Dragon". They have a small menu, with not so many different meal options, but everything we tried there is so delicious and well ...

The spring with the living water in Boyana

Far from the city center, but close to the famous Boyana church and the beginning of the paths to the Boyana lake and the Boyana waterfall, you can find a small spring with often long queues of people waiting to draw water from it. This is the spring with the "living water", a water, which is believed to cure and ...

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