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TRAVEL TO SOFIA

editor — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:50:00 +0000

In the second century AD, the Roman province of Ulpia was established in this region, whose center was the town of Serdica. The Romans habitually settled in places with thermal springs and the hot springs still flow here. This lends credence to the theory that this area was settled long before that time; it is officially accepted that people have lived and worked in Sofia for 5000 years. After the conquest by the ancient Turkish tribe of the Bulgarians, the city’s name changed to Sredez. Sofia was only called by it present name in 1329 – after the Church of

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SOFIA MAP

editor — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 16:15:00 +0000

Surrounded by the Ljulin mountains, the Sredna-Gora mountains and the 2325 meter high Vitoscha (the city’s “own mountain”), the city of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria and of the province of Sofia with 1,142,000 inhabitants, is very pleasantly situated in the ‘mid-west’ of the country. The crossroads of the railway lines between Belgrade -Istanbul and Bukarest – Skopje, 65 kilometers east of the Yugoslavian border, is not only an important junction and a major industrial city, but also holds its own as Bulgaria’s cultural and creative center. Seeing the wide streets, spacious parks and modem buildings, it is hard to

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Sights and Attractions in SOFIA

editor — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 10:30:00 +0000

Vitoscha Boulevard, which looks directly onto Vitoscha Mountain; the Freedom Park; the Alexander Newski Memorial Church, which was built at the beginning of this century as a token of gratitude to the Russian; the circular church of the Holy George; the hot springs; the former Royal Palace; the National Museum of History which houses the treasure of Rogosan, a part of the Thrakian gold treasures; the early Christian Basilica of the Holy Sofia. I held onto his dorsal fin and he towed me to within fifty metres of Lamorna Cove harbour and then disappeared. unknown to me, crowds of holidaymakers

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