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Transportation Museum
The unique Transportation Museum exhibits vintage locomotives from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as carriages that once belonged to Tsar Boris III, Tsar Ferdinand and Turkish sultan Abdul Aziz.
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Hadzhi Dimitâr Museum
This museum dedicated to the 19th-century rebel movement leader is set in a lovely building and features several rooms of furniture (including antique weaving equipment) set around a cobblestone courtyard.
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Banya Bashi Mosque
Sofia’s only working mosque was built in 1576. It’s certainly an eye-catching edifice and the red-brick minaret makes a convenient landmark. Visitors are welcome outside prayer times if modestly dressed.
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Nedkovich House
The Nedkovich House, dating from 1863, has a lovely, leafy courtyard that sometimes hosts art shows, but alas, the house is poorly lit inside. The highlights are the ornate wood ceiling and flowery wall paintings.
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Eski Mosque
One of Bulgaria’s oldest Muslim shrines, the 15th-century Eski Mosque stands along the mall. Although decidedly abandoned, it remains an interesting sight from outside and a special addition to Stara Zagora’s skyline.
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Sveti Georgi Rotunda
Built in the 4th century AD, this tiny red brick church is Sofias oldest preserved building. The murals inside were painted between the 10th and 14th centuries. Its a busy, working church, but tourists are welcome.
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Soviet Army Monument
North of the Pantheon of National Revival, at the end of ul Saedinenie, is the Soviet Army Monument, built in 1949. Behind this is the Youth Park, with playgrounds, swimming pools, tennis courts and good river views.
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Poda Conservation Centre
The Poda Conservation Centre opened in 1998 under the auspices of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and is an admirable effort at wildlife conservation so close to the urban sprawl of Burgas.
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Sveta Nedelya Cathedral
Completed in 1863, this magnificent domed church is one of the city’s major landmarks, noted for its rich, Byzantine-style murals. It was blown up by communists on 16 April 1925 in an attempt to assassinate Tsar Boris III.
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Philippopolis Art Gallery
Bulgaria’s first private art gallery, this occupies the well-restored Hadzhi Aleko house (1865). It boasts works by 19th- and 20th-century Bulgarian masters such as Vladimir Dimitrov, Anton Mitov and Dimitar Gyudzhenov.
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Dzhumaya Mosque
This, the second-oldest working mosque in Europe, was originally built in 1364, then demolished and rebuilt in the mid-15th century. With a 23m-high minaret, it was the largest of Plovdiv’s more than 50 Ottoman mosques.
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Museum of Icons
Housed in a former chapel, Tryavna’s second, larger Museum of Icons contains over 160 religious icons from the erstwhile collections of famous local families. The museum is beyond the train line, and signposted from ul PR Slaveikov.
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Sofia University Botanic Garden
Sofias small Botanic Garden includes a glasshouse filled with palms and cacti, a rose garden and various trees and flowers (labelled in Bulgarian and Latin). The entrance is through what looks like a flower shop on bul Vasil Levski.
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Sveti Stefan Church
Built in the 11th century and reconstructed 500 years later, this is the best-preserved church in town. Its beautiful 16th- to 18th-century murals cover virtually the entire interior. Come early, as its popular with tour groups.
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Church of Sveti Arhangeli Mihail
Overlooking the square is the slate-roofed St Archangel Michael’s Church , Tryavna’s oldest church, which is magically lit at night. Burnt down by the Turks but rebuilt in 1819, it boasts intricate Tryavna school woodcarvings.
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Pripoden Park
Also known as Kyoshkovete Park, this 3930-hectare park on Shumen’s western edge has modest, shaded hiking trails . You’ll see and hear the humming of the city’s most famous product being made at the nearby Shumensko Brewery.
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Aleksander Nevski Crypt
Originally built as a final resting place for Bulgarian kings, this crypt now houses Bulgarias biggest and best collection of icons, stretching back to the 5th century. Enter to the left of the eponymous churchs main entrance.
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National Museum of Natural History
You can almost sense the ghosts of generations of school parties dutifully trooping through the musty halls of Bulgarias oldest museum, founded in 1889. Rocks, minerals, stuffed birds and animals and mounted insects are on display.
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Roman Theatre
The 3rd-century AD Roman Theatre, often called the Antique Forum Augusta Trayana, is well preserved and hosts summertime concerts. As wandering around isnt allowed, peer in from the roadside. Other ruins opposite are accessible too.
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Natural History Museum
Old-fashioned but informative displays on local flora, fauna and geology are on view here. Exhibits of rocks, seashells, butterflies and beetles occupy the ground floor, while upstairs there’s a collection of stuffed birds and animals.
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