Description Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia - the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. A rich and varied history, magnificent mountain nature, a range of attractions and lots of cultural events makes Sofia city, appealing to true lovers of travel.

Center for Contemporary Sofia is compact and largely given to the power of pedestrians. Several broad boulevards diverge in all directions from the central square of the Light Sunday, framed by elegant public buildings, including the building of the National Assembly and the court.

The most bustling thoroughfare of the capital is the Vitosha Blvd. It is the largest shopping street, most of which turned into a pedestrian zone. There are countless shops, banks, cafes and bars.

Sofia - the city of statues and monuments. It is hard to find the area or intersection, which would not have installed any monument, an obelisk or a statue. Many of them express gratitude to the Bulgarian Russian soldiers, contributed to the expulsion of the Turks, though not forgotten, and their own heroes - from the Vassil Levski to St. Cyril.

Popularity Sofia among tourists, among many other reasons, due to a good geographic location of the city. Sofia is located almost in the center of the Balkan Peninsula, at the crossroads of major routes linking the Middle East and Europe, as well as the Black, Aegean and Adriatic seas.

Sofia is surrounded by mountains: to the north - the foothills of Stara Planina, south-east - Lozenskie low mountains to the south looms Mount Vitosha, the south-west - Lozenskie sloping mountains, a ring of mountains interrupted only in the northwest - toward Yugoslavia and in the east and south-east - towards the Thracian lowland.

Distance from Sofia to the border with Yugoslavia (Kalotina) - 55 kilometers to the border with Macedonia (Gyueshevo) - 113 kilometers to the border with Greece (Tower) - 183 kilometers to the border with Turkey (Kapitan Andreevo) - 315 kilometers, and to Romanian border (Vidin) - 211 kilometers (Ruse) - 324 kilometers to the maritime border - 392 km (Bourgas), and 470 kilometers (Varna).

Not far from Sofia are located Pancherevo Lake and the Iskar reservoir. At the very outskirts of Sofia Iskar River and through the city - several small rivers, the most famous of which Vladayska and Perlovskaya.