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Sofia: Communist History Walking Tour
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Sofia: Communist History Walking Tour

By VisitBulgariaOn.com
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Free cancellation available
Price is $90 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
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Overview
  • Explore the communist history of Sofia through its imposing architecture
  • See the Monument to the Soviet Army at Borissova Garden
  • Discover where the elite would shop at the Central Department Store
  • Purchase communist relics at an antiques market

Activity location

    • Sofia
    • Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • бул. Цар Освободител 22, метростанция Софийски университет "Св. Климент, Охридски, 1113 Doctor's Garden, Sofia, Bulgaria | Meet at the Tourist Information Center, bul. Tsar Osvoboditel 22, Sofia.
    • Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

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Sofia: Communist History Walking Tour
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
$90.47 x 1 Adult$90.47

Total
Price is $90.47

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedEnglish-speaking guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedPublic transportation ticket (if needed for people with walking problems)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood and drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedOptional gratuities
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedHotel pickup and drop-off

What you can expect

Discover the communist remnants of Sofia city center on a walking tour with an English-speaking guide. Benefit from their expertise about the communist era and its architecture.

See the imposing Monument to the Soviet Army at Borissova Garden, and then ride, if needed, a trolley bus with the locals to experience a relic from olden times. Arrive at the impressive National Palace of Culture, the largest congress hall in the Balkans. Discover a piece of the Berlin Wall, which fell just one day before the radical changes that occurred in Bulgaria in 1989.

Walk down Vitosha boulevard to reach the former headquarters of the Communist Party. See the upmarket Central Department Store (TZUM), where the elite would shop. Continue to the site of the former Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum on Prince Alexander of Battenberg Square. End at the antiques market outside Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and pick up some communist relics.

Location

Activity location

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    • Sofia
    • Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • бул. Цар Освободител 22, метростанция Софийски университет "Св. Климент, Охридски, 1113 Doctor's Garden, Sofia, Bulgaria | Meet at the Tourist Information Center, bul. Tsar Osvoboditel 22, Sofia.
    • Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria