Sights in Town Sofia

The Sofia Synagogue is located in the city center on the building occupied by the very old synagogue "Ahava i Hesed" (Heb. Love and Kindness), close to the new Central Baths and new Central Market (Tsentralni Hali). It is the second largest Sephardic (Spanish-Jewish) synagogue in Europe. The ...

The Gorna Banya monastery Sts. Cyril and Methodius (also called "Lyulinski Monastery") is located some 3 km away from the Sofia district Gorna Banya, in the Lyulin Mountain. The monastery was founded in XIII-th century and in the past was "St. Kral" (King), because according th...

Central Hali Market Hall (for short Halite) is a commercial complex in downtown of Sofia city at Blvd Maria Luisa to the junction with street Exarch Joseph. The Market Hall opened its doors in 1911 and became an important commercial site in the city center. It was closed in 1988 for reconstruction ...

Petko (1827-1895) and Pencho (1867-1912) Slaveykovi are father and son. They are great Bulgarian writers, poets, publicists, folklore researchers and politicians from the XIX-th and early of XX-th century. This museum in Sofia is devoted to them and is housed in an apartment donated in 1949 from S...

Pancho Vladigerov (1899–1978) is a prominent Bulgarian composer, musician, conductor, pedagogue and publicist. He was born in Switzerland, but his childhood elapsed in town of Shumen (there is also a Museum of Pancho Vladigerov). From 1920 to 1932 Vladigerov lives and works in Berlin (Germany) and t...

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. square...

The church St.St.Cyril and Methodius is located in the real center of Sofia and is devoted to the Cyril and Methodius brothers (creators of Slavic alphabet) and their five disciples Kliment, Naum, Sava, Gorazd, and Angelariy. The church was built over the ruins the former Black Mosque in the b...

The Museum of Mineralogy, Petrology and Mineral Resources in Sofia is the oldest museum in Bulgaria. From 1953 it is located in the building of Sofia University, on the floorage of 800m2. There are exhibited around 16200 samples in 7 expositions: "Taxonomy", "Petrography", ...

The museum exhibition of Sofia University is situated in the premises beneath the rotunda in Block 6 in the Northern wing of the Sofia University, adapted to museum needs.The whole exhibition covers a space of about 100 m2  in the main hall and 4 separate rooms. The exhibition is successfully ...

Vetrovala ski-slope is located 12km away from the center of Sofia city,  in area of Vetrovala (Vitosha mountain, 3km away from Zlatnite mostove area) at an altitude of 1510m. It is 700 meters long and 150m wide with inclination of 70 meters. The slope has "blue" category and is suitable fo...