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Sofia is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bulgaria, with 1.4 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of MountVitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country.One of the oldest cities in Europe, the history of Serdica-Sredets-Sofia can be traced back some 7000 years; prehistoric settlements were excavated in the centre of the present city, near the royal palace, as well as in outer districts such as Slatina and Obelia. The well preserved town walls (especially their substructures) from antiquity date back before the 7th century BC, when Thracians established their city next to the most important and highly respected mineral spring, still functioning today. Sofia has had several names in the different periods of its existence, and remnants of the city's millenary history can still be seen today alongside modern landmarks

Sofia is the most walkable city in Europe. You won't need a car or a taxi if you visit  it  even in rainy days.The walker's Sofia is shaped like a gull with wings outstretched, with the Balkan Sheraton and the neo-Byzantine St. Nedelya Church forming St. Nedelya Square as its head. The lobby of the Sheraton, the grande dame among Sofia's six ultra-luxurious hotels, is a tourist attraction in itself, filled with antique chalices, ornamental clocks and expansive oils. “ Ruski “  boulevard that changes its official names during the decades  but  native of  call it “Tzarya” or “Yellow Brick Road” - paved in 1917 with yellow bricks from Vienna - is the gull's right wing. Vitosha Boulevard – pedestrian zone , where you'll find shops bearing names such as Versace, Ermenegildo Zegna, Chanel and Donna Karan, is the left wing.
Opposite to Sheraton  you find TSUM, once a grim department store modeled after Moscow's GUM today, it's a gleaming glass-and-marble four-story complex of elegant shops - Swarovski, Nautica, Calvin Klein, Limoges, Victorinox. Between Sheraton an TZUM begins an Yellow Brick Road  along the former  Communist party  headquarters to the white and yellow neo-Baroque buildings including the Presidency, the National Art Gallery, the National Ethnographic Museum and, ahead on the left, the onion-domed emerald-and-gold St. Nicholas Russian Church and neo-classic building of the Officers’ Club. After 300 m. on the left you come  to an enormous black equestrian statue of Russian Czar Alexander II, who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878. Alexander faces the National Assembly on his right and the stunning Russo-Byzantine St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the symbol of Sofia, on his left. At his backside is the Radisson Grand, a hangout for parliamentarians as well as tourists. No walker should miss the Theater District, just south of St. Nedelya Square, a pedestrian haven surrounding the red, white and gold neo-classicalNational Theater Ivan Vazov, set amid a pool and fountains and filled withsidewalk cafes. Whenever you should be lost, you could count on a  casual  passing people to point  you  to your destination.
Crossing the Yellow Brick Road is Rakovsky Street - party central, with nightclubs, restaurants, bars and the National Opera. Early one afternoon you can find here wine and a light lunch  at Vinobar, where you have to check out the 10-20 -page wine list . The best  red wines like “No Man’s Land” are from  Melnik, heart of one of Bulgaria's five wine regions. "No Man's Land" was the name for the barren three-mile-wide strip between Bulgaria and Greece to which refugees from Communism once fled, risking death at the hands of Soviet soldiers. Today, No Man's Land is filled with grapevines.