The Sofia Art Gallery is a museum with longstanding traditions. Its role is to present the facts of Bulgarian cultural history in an analytical and modern way and to actively intervene in art developments through original and impressive projects. Sofia Art Gallery’s responsibility is to conserve, maintain, and study art …

The National Art Gallery houses over 50,000 pieces of Bulgarian art. It is located on Battenberg Square in the capital city of Sofia, occupying most of the historic and imposing edifice of the former royal palace of Bulgaria. The gallery has been established in 1934 and moved to the palace …

The National Museum of Military History (NMMH) is a state museum, which is a structure of the Ministry of Defense (respectively the Ministry of War and the Ministry of National Defense). The museum has existed under various names and is subordinate to various institutions since 1 August 1914 (in practice …

Founded in 1973, the National Museum of History in Sofia contains more than 650,000 exhibits and is one of the largest history museums on the Balkans. The aim of the museum is to provide a comprehensive view on Bulgarian history from the prehistory to present, in as broad an European …

The oldest and largest museums in Bulgaria can be found in Sofia. The worldwide famous Thracian gold and silver treasures discovered through excavations in the Bulgarian lands, and many others originating from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Middle Ages as well can be seen in the National Museum of History located in Boyana …

Once called in its motto a city which ‘grows up but doesn’t grow old’, today Sofia has sensibly grown in measure but still looks young due to the fresh greenery of its parks and gardens. Here one can sense that, missing in other capitals, opportunity in no time to change …

Vitosha Mountain is the oldest nature park on the Balkan Peninsula. Its gorgeous silhouette is visible from almost all positions in the city and is an inseparable part of Sofia’s image. In 1934 with the active involvement of the Bulgarian nature-conservation society, part of the mountain of 6,600 ha was …

Gastronomy and interest in a particular national cuisine by no means may present an excellent reason for tourism, and if in addition the culinary proposals prove to be enticing, they may become a dominant gourmet accent in one’s memories from the journey. Sofia can propose a considerable variety of traditional …

One can hardly have a tedious time in Sofia. With its abundance of concert halls, art galleries, fashionable clubs and cafes, restaurants, discos and underground clubs, the prevailing part of which are open until late at night, or at night, the capital provides various amusements and adventures suitable for anybody’s …