Aleksander Nevski Memorial Church ...

... to remember the 200,000 Russian soldiers who fought for Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish war. Surprisingly dark and empty inside.

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Beautifully Ugly

July 23rd 2011
Geo: 42.7105, 23.3238Oxymoronic, but I cannot think of a more apt description for Sofia. It's a city in transition, rough around the edges, an exciting but curious melange of former Eastern Bloc relics and modern Western European sensibilities. Beautiful? Hardly. There's no precious little old town that is so common in other European capitals, only austere Soviet-style concrete build ... read more

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The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, b... ... read more

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