For preventing accidents the municipality started to dismantle some parts of the monument 1300 Years Bulgaria. In the meantime the discussion for it's future started again.
Hot summer day, everyone is looking for a shadow. The garden in front of the National Library with the monument of Saints Cyril and Methodius and the red building of Arts Academy in the background.
The Memorial for the victims of communism, a small chapel, one sculpture art piece and as a background the steel structure ruins of the monument to 1300 years of Bulgaria in snow.
In this house on "Rakovski" street lived in 1912 -1913 the famous bulgarian poet and dramatist Yavorov, the founder of the Symbolist movement in bulgarian poetry.
"Hadji Nikoli Inn" - nice building, created in the 19th century by Kolyo Ficheto, the self-taught master of the Bulgarian National Revival architecture; now after rehabilitation housing art museum, restaurant and coffee.