Sofia's streets and squares are like a museum under the open sky, where various architectural styles intertwine, and behind the facades of the buildings lie intriguing and instructive, sometimes astonishing and piquant personal and socially significant stories.
In "More Historical Routes: Sofia" Zdravko Petrov continues what he began in his first book about Sofia, recounting another 70 streets, squares, ensembles and individual buildings scattered along two new routes through the central part of the capital – the first from Graf Ignatiev Street to Pozitano, and the second from Lavov Bridge through the Women's Market district to the magnificent building of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
In this book you will discover where the homes of significant Bulgarian ministers, generals, Sofia mayors, manufacturers, financiers, teachers, doctors and lawyers were. You will learn the names of the architects who shaped the appearance of the capital city.
You will leaf through the stories of: a baroness from Lower Saxony; the Kanazirski family; the Arsovi from Papradishta; the "little palace" of Prince Alexander I; the artist Ivan Milev; the mosque of Sofu Mehmed Pasha; Petko and Ekaterina Karavelov; the "Charles-Jean" affair; the Slaveykovi; the first insurance cooperative; the Sofia sculpture of Gutenberg; the building with the eagle; the assassination attempt on the lawyer Dobrinovich; "The Long Tavern"; the arches of Lavov Bridge; the perfume factory of the Arie brothers; the weekly market (Women's Market); one of the heroes of the Eighth Coastal Regiment; the Dzhapunov family; the Jewish buildings on "Exarch Yosif", the chocolate factory of the Peevi; the lost section of "Maria Louisa"; the Dzhumaliev mill and the Batolo watermill; the Romanian church; the builder of the "Bulgarian Phoenix" company; the Yuchbunar Bank; the building called the "American skyscraper" at the end of the 1920s...
