flying object

Practice makes perfect! Captured at the Monument of the Soviet Army.

ceremony

Commemoration ceremony in honour of Vasil Levski, the Bulgarian Apostle of Freedom. He is the symbol of the struggle against five centuries Ottoman rule in the late 1860s and early 1870s.

the Sofia monument

Errected in the center of the city, where the communist authority has the idea to situate a monument of Lenin, this statue suppose to be symbol of our city. The crane serves the Metro construction site, and on the flag poles on the right normally we can see all EU nations flags.

monument

Do you remember the wrapped monument - here it is! Dedicated to the bulgarian heroes (opalchenzi) from the battles of Shipka pass (russo-turkish war 1877-78). The cech painter Yaroslav Veshin, who mainly worked in Bulgaria about the beginning of 20th century has a picture - "the Samara flag" and this monument is it's "quotation".

the monument and the opera

The monument of Alexander Stamboliyski, leader of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union in the period 1918-23, prime minister 1920 - 23. During this years Architect Parashkevanov made the project for the unions house. But it could be built in 1949-53 as a great complex housing the National opera too.