National Art Gallery Sofia

I woke up this morning to see the rooftops of the neighboring buildings dusted with snow! I couldn't wait to get outside and see what had changes since I'd last been here in 2009.

After a quick breakfast of banitza - a traditional Bulgarian food prepared with filo dough, feta cheese and eggs - mom and I left the house to run some errands …

Monday, September 10 - Thursday, September 13

Sofia

My worst inter-city commute to date was from Montenegro to Sofia. It was an overnight 14 hour bus ride from Herceg Novi to Nis, Serbia (I already mentioned the driving through the wild fires in Montenegro), and then being stuck in Nis, Serbia (arrival at 7 am) for the next 9 …

... an old Mosque, no longer in use. My ears pricked up at that! !! From there we walked back along the road to the National Art Gallery where we went inside but only as far as the souvenir shop. This was an excellent shop with good quality artefacts on ...

... showing Tsar Alexander II of Russia on the horseback. Nearby is also beautiful Russian church of St.Nicolas,National Art gallery and Ethnographic museum,Rotunda of St.George (from 4th century A.D.),and National theater builded in Neoclassical style. ...

... explains more about the site and has pictures of the artifacts as they were found. After the museum, we walked by the National Art gallery (formerly the palace of the Bulgarian king when Bulgaria was still a monarchy, before WW II), then walked by the ...

... gold domes of the St Alexander Nevski Temple Church.  We also loved St Nikolai Russian Church and the impressive National Art Gallery Building.  It's a warm evening and everyone is out and about in the gardens and streets.  We explored ...

... fourth centuries B.C.  Many of the pieces are very well-preserved, and all of them are interesting. Today I visited the National Art Gallery, housed in the former palace of the Tsars.  I was hoping to visit the Ethnographic Museum in the same ...