Sights in District Sofia-city

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...

The Church of St George (Rotonda "Sveti Georgi") is located in Sofia downtown near Sheraton Hotel, amid remains of the ancient town of Serdica. This is an Early Christian red brick rotunda that is considered the oldest preserved building in Sofia. The church was built in the 4th century by the...

Ski center "Ophelii" is located at Vitosha mountain, 3.5 km. away of "Zlatnite mostove" ("The Golden bridges") locality, towards hut Boeritsa, at an altitude of 1540 meters. In the region are situated a ski-school (Machirski) with a qualified mountain rescuer and 2 cha...

The National Art Gallery (Natsionalna hudozhestvena galeriya) is located in central part of Sofia in the building of the former royal palace of Bulgaria. It was created in 1934 and moved to the palace in 1946, after the abolition of the monarchy.The National Art Gallery houses over 50,000 pieces of...

The Jewish Historical Museum in Sofia was created May 8, 1992 and is the successor of the existed in the period 1968 - 1990 exposition "The rescue of Bulgarian Jews 1941-1944". The museum is housed in the building of the Sofia Synagogue and is managed by the Organization of Jews in...

St Nedelya Church (Holy Sunday Church) is an Eastern Orthodox church in Sofia, located in city center at the square of Sveta Nedelya. It is a medieval church built in the XX-th century.Address of the church: Sveta Nedelya square, Sofia...

Batil (a.k.a. Boyana) was a medieval Bulgarian fortress. Its remains are located in the Vitosha Mountain, above the present-day Sofias district of Boyana. It was built on a peak "Momina Skala" with an altitude of 1087 meters above sea level. The name of the fortification is related to the...