Sofia Hotels, Sofia Flights and Sofia City Breaks:
The second oldest city in Europe, Sofia is absolutely stuffed with 7,000 years worth of eye-watering treasures. Only recently has it acquired the laissez-faire informality to make that glory attractive to visitors. Fired by the unrestrained energy of its post-1989 generation, Sofia’s new ambience is its guarantee of pole position as hot new capital – especially for anyone with an interest in Byzantine art and architecture.
Start drooling. Boyana, a 10th and 13th century church on the edge of the city is covered from top to bottom in vivid frescoes credited by international specialities as ‘the best examples of eastern medieval art during its twelve centuries of history’. It was opened to the public only in 2006, The Church of St Sophia was built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. Fifth-century St George’s has stunning 14th century frescoes. The endless list isn’t at all confined to a single era.
Sofia belonged to Alexander the Great 800 years before the Emperor Constantine called it ‘my Rome’, and fashioned it into the walled fortress still visible, woven into the modern fabric of tree-lined avenues and great squares. It acquired oriental trappings of fountains, hamams, minarets and mosques with huge domes to match the bulbous extravaganzas of the Orthodox Rite, during 400 years of Ottoman subjugation. The synagogue has existed since 967. Royal and aristocratic palaces, and elegant avenues of modern classicism mark the monarchy that followed the liberation in 1878, And since 1989, the whole, quirky, amazing, grand, extraordinary hotchpotch has been infused with a café and club culture as sophisticated as anywhere, but cheaper and more accessible. Street-life is booming in 300 parks, the flea markets and the open-air book emporium of Slaveykov Square and Vitosha Boulevard, heartland of an intellectual culture that Paris’s Left Bank lost years ago. Sofia’s a big city. There’s nothing you can’t do – except that you will never have done it this way.
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