[129], The Council of Ministers (left), Presidency (right) and the future National Assembly building, The edifice of the Presidency also houses the Ministry of Education and Science, Under Bulgaria's centralised political system, Sofia concentrates much of the political and financial resources of the country. The city is ranked 62nd among financial centres worldwide.

Marazov, Ivan (ed.). [183] All major types of transport (except water) are represented in the city. Today the tram system operates a route of 308 km total.

Its largest branch is Kvadrat 500, located on the NFGA premises, where some 2,000 works are on display in twenty eight exhibition halls.

They look outstanding from afar. The design of this Cathedral is extremely sophisticated and many of its domes are gold plated. As a result, 1/3 of the first budget of Sofia as a capital was used for lighting. Sofia City Province has an area of 1344 km2,[40] while the surrounding and much bigger Sofia Province is 7,059 km2. Sofia's development as a significant settlement owes much to its central position in the Balkans.

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Top 10 Things you must know when Travelling to Khiva, 10 Things to do in Shiraz - Iran Travel Guide. Folling his capture in 1873, Vasil Levski was transferred and hanged in Sofia by the Ottomans.

It has 1,246,791 people.

In previous countries, we may be able to guess meanings from certain words but it is impossible to do so with words spelt out in Cyrillic alphabet! There are some ten[151] tennis court complexes within the city including the one founded by former WTA top-five athlete Magdalena Maleeva.[152]. During the reign of Justinian it flourished, being surrounded with great fortress walls whose remnants can still be seen today.

On the surface, Sofia has many bus and tram services but underneath,  the city only has two Subway lines.

The city is home to a number of large sports venues, including the 43,000-seat Vasil Levski National Stadium which hosts international football matches, as well as Balgarska Armia Stadium, Georgi Asparuhov Stadium and Lokomotiv Stadium, the main venues for outdoor musical concerts.

There were 3,162 theatric performances with 570,568 people attending in 2014. The Balkan Mountains and the beginning of the Iskar Gorge are visible in the distance. This first station is the Serdika Metro Station and here you could find many of these Roman buildings merging with the modern structures. In summer, the city generally remains slightly cooler than other parts of Bulgaria, due to its higher altitude. The Thracians, Iztok – Zapad, Sofia, 2011. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. Fortunately, most Bulgarians are friendly are fluent in English so we get plenty of help when we are stuck. Overall, Sofia has 186 km (116 miles) of railway lines.

The common head of Sofia Municipality and all the 38 settlements is the mayor of Sofia. US and UK Air forces conducted bombings over Sofia, Museum of Contemporary Art – Sofia Arsenal, http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=134487%7Ctitle=Ромите, Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Vladislav the Grammarian 73rd Secondary School, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of twin towns and sister cities in Bulgaria, "Население по градове и пол | Национален статистически институт", "Archaeologist Discovers 8,000-Year-Old Nephrite 'Frog-like' Swastika in Slatina Neolithic Settlement in Bulgaria's Capital Sofia – Archaeology in Bulgaria", "CITIES AND THEIR URBANISED AREAS IN THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA", https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=met_d3area&lang=en, https://www.nsi.bg/nrnm/show2.php?sid=57422&ezik=en&e=128142&e=9787, "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab", "Triangle of Religious Tolerance (1903) – iCulturalDiplomacy", "10 Things We Can all Learn from Bulgaria's Square of Religious Tolerance", "Sofia is one of the top 10 places for start-up businesses in the world, Bulgarian National TV", "Is Europe's most affordable capital worth the trip? Of the population aged 15–64 – 265,248 people within the municipality (28.5%) are not economically active, the unemployed being another group of 55,553 people (6%), a large share of whom have completed higher education. Under the Roman rule, Serdica, which is modern day Sofia, became the most important Roman city in the region.

The ratio of women per 1,000 men was 1,102. The gold treasure discovered in the Varna Necropolis is the oldest one in the world. The city is the hot spot of internal migration, the capital population is increasing and is around 17% of the national,[158] thus a small number of people with local roots remain today, they dominate the surrounding rural suburbs and are called Shopi. It is one of the largest Orthodox cathedrals in the world and was built between 1904 to 1912 to honour the Russian soldiers who died to liberate Bulgaria from the Ottoman Rule. 27.