Parliament
Right in the centre of the city at Serdika metro station, three monumental government buildings around Independence Square catch your eye. [btn "Book a hotel in the centre of Sofia" https://www.booking.com/city/bg/sofia.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-sofie-largo] The complex consists of a total of three buildings built in the 1950s in the then typical style of socialist classicism. The whole complex of three buildings and the square is called…
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Exhibition Centre, Modern Building, Park
The famous National Palace of Culture ( NDK) is one of the largest multifunctional halls of its kind in the world. It stands in a popular park with many fountains at the end of the city's main pedestrian zone - Vitosha Boulevard. [btn "Book a hotel in the centre of Sofia" https://www.booking.com/city/bg/sofia.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-sofie-ndk] The National Palace of Culture was opened in 1981 to celebrate the 1,300th anniversary of…
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Street, Shopping class
Every big city has its main pedestrian and shopping street, and Sofia's is definitely the wide and over 1 km long Vitosha Boulevard. The street then continues on past the National Palace of Culture to the south, but the main pedestrianised part runs only from the NDK to the Church of St Nedelya. [btn "Book a hotel in the centre of Sofia at a discount" https://www.booking.com/city/bg/sofia.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-sofie-bulvar] Vitosha…
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Cathedral, Modern Building
The largest Catholic church in Bulgaria is Sofia's St. Joseph Cathedral. Unlike many historic churches and cathedrals of the Orthodox Churches, the Catholic Cathedral is a modern building built in 2006. The church was built on the site of the original Catholic church, which was bombed out during World War II. From then until 2006, St. Louis Church in Plovdiv served as the main cathedral. You can visit St. Joseph's Cathedral for free daily…
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