1, General Gurko Str. In 1880, the Sofia City Council voted to place the city government temporarily at the house of the prominent physician and politician, Dr. Mincho Tsachev, occupying the corner of General Gurko and Vasil Levski (today General Gurko and Dyakon Ignatii) streets. The Town Hall remained there until 1968, when in the…
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The Vrana Palace
381, ‘Tsarigradsko Shose’ Blvd. Not far from Sofia, on the site of pre-Liberation farm Chardakliya, stands one of Tsar Ferdinand I’s favourite residences. The first building of the palace complex – a contemporary two-storey villa, erected in 1906 by arch. Georgi Fingov, brilliantly fuses Bulgarian Baroque and Viennese decorative system with derived from the Tryavna…
The Home of Dr. Metodi Slavchev, MD.
12, Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. The Neo-Renaissance building was part of the harmonic architectural ensemble which took shape at the turn of the 20th c. along Sofia’s Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. – between the building of the National Assembly and what is today the Military Club. Other members of this ensemble include the home of Iv. Ev.…
The Home of Ivan Ev. Geshov
16, Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. The three-story Neo-Renaissance home of the prime minister (1911 – 1913) and long-term chair of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and of the Bulgarian Red Cross Ivan Evstratiev Geshov, is constructed between 1899 and 1901 on the prime Sofia boulevard Tsar Osvoboditel, soon after he finds himself the unexpected heir to…
The Home of Ivan Vazov
10, Ivan Vazov Str. At the corner of G.S. Rakovski and what is today Ivan Vazov Str., stands the home of the patriarch of Bulgarian literature, Ivan Vazov. On a family land, and with the help of a 30 000-Gold Leva bank loan – outstanding at his death, in 1895 begins the construction of the house…
The Home of Geo Milev
23, Marie-Louise Blvd. The Neo-Classical façade, characteristic of the first half of the 20th century Sofia once standing opposite the iconic Banya-Bashi mosque, was an example of the mixed-use buildings sprouting with the emancipation of the young capital. The impressive volumes were symmetrically ordered by rhythmically arranged windows and ornamental pilasters, upon which the commercial…
The German Legation
2, Patriarch Evtimii Blvd. The house of the municipal engineer Mikhail Momchilov and his Austrian wife, Baroness Philippines von Gleichen stands proudly from the throng of beautiful buildings remaining from the late-19th-century Sofia. Momchilov completes his education in Dresden and returns to Bulgaria after great success in Europe, including a collaboration with none other than…
The Home of Dr. Dimitar Mollov, MD.
3, National Assembly Sq. The home of Dr. Dimitar Mollov – MD, member of the Constituent Assembly, minister of education and mayor of Sofia (1895 – 1896), is among the few still standing beautiful pre-war buildings. Since 1909, the designed by the famous Bulgarian architect and French pupil Nikola Lazarov house is a hallmark…
The St. Joseph Catholic Cathedral
146, Knyaz Boris I Str. Construction of the St. Joseph Catholic Cathedral commences prior to the Liberation, but the bulk of the work is finished in 1880. The cathedral complex includes a church, a Capuchin monastery, a school and a concert hall. Finishing work on the church’s façade and interior continue for nearly another decade,…
The St. Alexander Nevsky Memorial Cathedral
St. Alexander Nevsky Sq. The largest functioning orthodox temple in Bulgaria, and the second-largest on the Balkan peninsula – the St. Alexander Nevsky Memorial Cathedral, stands at the centre of Sofia as one of the most recognizable symbols of the Bulgarian capital. The decision to construct a cathedral – memorial to the Liberation and to…