Trip to Sofia

This magnificent eastern Orthodox cathedral is one of the largest in the world. Its most striking...

This is Bulgaria’s most prestigious opera theatre. While the institution was founded in the...

This church is supposedly at the very center of Sofia – it lies directly on the ancient cro...

This Roman church, built in the 4th century in a square in the ancient town of Serkika, is the ol...

This is one of the prettiest Russian churches – a white building of green roofs and golden ...

Petko and Pencho Slaveykov were a father-son duo of Bulgarian writers. This square is named after...

This church, built in 1528, was originally a mosque with an ominous name – the Black Mosque...

Built on the remains of a pagan Roman temple, the church is famous for it’s 15th and 16th c...

This is the largest history museum in the Balkans in terms of the size of the collection – ...

This cute little bookstore and art and souvenir shop is unmissable. The staff really know their s...

Housed in the oldest remaining Ottoman building in Sofia, the museum’s artefacts cover obje...

Under starry skies with a fancy cocktail in your hand is the best way to spend your evening in Bu...

The red-brick mosque has a strange name – ‘Many Baths’. That’s because it...

The Russian Tsar Alexander II and his troops liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1876 after c...

Not sure why this is called ‘Woman’s Market’- fruit and vegetables, cheese, cur...

This is an intriguing attraction. It’s basically a public park, with all the usual strollin...

It’s very strange that Sofia, once renowned for it’s public baths, has let that parti...

There’s two kinds of souvenirs – the standardised ones and the ones that are special....

This is one of the best military museums in the world. It was founded in 1916, and in the last 10...

The museum is famous for its collection of pastoral woodcarving from the 19th and 20th centuries....