It holds a key location as it is the site where the Sofia ring road and Bulgaria Boulevard cross.

Mall of Sofia holds one of the largest IMAX cinemas in Europe.

Real estate boomed in 2003 – 2008 with some of the highest prices in the nation, by fall 2007 surpassing Sofia ( this still holds true in April 2009 ).

* A school and a street in Bulgaria's capital Sofia are named in his honour, as is a street in the city of Plovdiv, and in Limassol, Cyprus.

The initial Treaty of San Stefano was rejected by the Western Great Powers, and the following Treaty of Berlin limited Bulgaria's territories to Moesia and the region of Sofia.

Following a large and impressive state funeral at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, where the streets were lined with weeping crowds, the coffin of Tsar Boris III was taken by train to the mountains and buried in Bulgaria's largest and most important monastery, the Rila Monastery.

Sofia concentrates the majority of Bulgaria's leading performing arts troupes.

* Novinite. com ( Sofia News Agency ), Bulgaria's largest English language news provider

A major traffic artery in Bulgaria's capital Sofia carries the name Tsarigradsko shose (" Tsarigrad Road "); the road begins as the Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard and continues into the main highway that leads southeast to Istanbul.

On 4 November 2011 it was announced that Bulgaria's new national stadium is going to be built in the Sofia suburb of Vrazhdebna, the Minister of Youth and Sports, Svilen Neykov, has announced.

* 28 July 2007: Libyan officials said they had sent a memo to the Arab League calling for action against Sofia – and a protest to the EU – because Bulgaria's decision to pardon the medics has angered Tripoli.

He began his career as a youngster with Sliven football club ( Bulgaria ), after breaking into the first team at a young age he secured a transfer to Bulgaria's top side CSKA Sofia ( Bulgaria, 1991 – 92 season ) and soon after he made the move to Germany with Hamburger SV ( Germany, from the 1992 – 93 season to the 1995 – 96 season ).

He excluded even the region of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, from the Bulgarian stock and maintained the three types above were eminently Slavic and therefore Serbian.

The town of Boboshevo is situated around to the south of Sofia and from Bulgaria's prime skiing destination, Bansko.

The Greek army was threatened by encirclement in the valley, but due to the Romanian army advancing against the undefended capital Sofia, Bulgaria had to agree to an armistice and the resulting peace treaty in Bucharest which was unfavorable to Bulgaria's territorial aspirations.

In 1878, shortly after Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman rule, the General Assembly voted to move the seat of the Society from Brăila to Sofia, and on 1 March 1893 the BLS moved into its own building, right next to where the Bulgarian Parliament is seated.

PFC Lokomotiv Sofia () is a Bulgarian football club from the capital city of Sofia, which currently competes in Bulgaria's top football league, the A PFG.

The largest centres include Sofia, Plovdiv and the surrounding area, Botevgrad, Stara Zagora, Varna, Pravets and many other cities.

The capital Sofia is the only European city that has peacefully functioning, within less than 100 meters, four Place of worship of the major religions: 1 ) Eastern Orthodox-St Nedelya Church, 2 ) Islam-Banya Bashi Mosque, 3 ) Roman Catholicism-Cathedral of St Joseph, Sofia and 4 ) Orthodox Judaism-Sofia Synagogue, the third largest synagogue in Europe.

Borisova Gradina is the largest park in Sofia.

Sofia (, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 15th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1. 2 million people.

Varna (, pronounced ) is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and the third-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv with a population of 334, 870 inhabitants as of February, 2011.

After the Unification Plovdiv became the largest city in the country for several years with 33, 032 inhabitants compared to 30, 428 for Sofia.

In its ethnic character Plovdiv is the third largest cosmopolitan city inhabited by Bulgarians after Sofia and Varna.

* Sofia, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bulgaria

Three years later, Sofia Coppola credited In the Mood for Love as her largest inspiration on her Oscar-nominated film Lost in Translation, which itself ended with secrets being shared, and made important use of another song by Bryan Ferry.

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia | Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world.

It is the third largest in Bulgaria after Burgas and Sofia Provinces and comprises 5. 8 % of the country's territory.

Air VIA Bulgarian Airways is a charter airline with its head office in Sofia, Bulgaria, operating charter flights on behalf of the largest European tour operators, most of them from a broad range of European destinations into Varna Airport and Burgas Airport, as well wet lease subservices.

Sofia ( София ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

Lokomotiv's 9 – 0 defeat of Chernomorets Burgas Sofia on 27 May 2007 was its largest league win.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( MNCARS ) is the official name of Spain's national museum of 20th-century art, located in Madrid ( informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofia Museum.

Bulgaria is rich in historical artifacts, but museus to keep them is up to be built ( central historical and art museum is now being developed in Sofia ), many of the museums and monasteries still need to be properly advertised and maintained, and some of the most interesting heritage sites may not be easily accessible, due to poor infrastructure.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( MNCARS ) is the official name of Spain's national museum of 20th century art ( informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofia Museum, El Reina Sofia, or simply The Sofia ).

The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofia of Spain.

He has been the subject of numerous museum retrospectives, beginning in 1983 with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( traveling to the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ), the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1989, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2000, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 2001.

Smaller collections of items related mostly to the history of Sofia are in the National Archaeological Museum, a former mosque located between the edifices of the National Bank and the Presidency.

Irwin's work is held in more than thirty public collections worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain ; the Museum of Modern Art, New York ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Hall has sculpture, films, videotapes, installations and related material in the collections of the Tate Gallery London, Museum of Modern Art New York, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Gemeente Museum The Hague, West Australia Art Gallery Perth, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Arts Council of England, Contemporary Arts Society, British Film Institute, Great South West Corporation Atlanta USA, Richard Feigen Gallery New York, Visual Resources Inc. New York, Royal College of Art, Harvard University, ZKM Karlsruhe, and other public and private collections worldwide.

The Thyssen-Bornemisza fills the historical gaps in its counterparts ' collections: in the Prado's case this includes Italian primitives and works from the English, Dutch and German schools, while in the case of the Reina Sofia it includes Impressionists, Expressionists, and European and American paintings from the second half of the 20th century.

Katz's work is in the collections of over 100 public institutions worldwide, including the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY ; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY ; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; Carnegie Museum of Art ; the Art Institute of Chicago ; Cleveland Museum of Art ; the Tate Gallery, London ; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo ; the Nationalgalerie, Berlin ; and the Museum Brandhorst, Munich.