Skip to content
TimeToStep

Park

Doctors' Garden

A quiet garden with a memorial to the doctors who died in the Russo-Turkish War.

Small and leafy, with Roman stones scattered among the trees and a monument at its centre. It is a calm place a few minutes from the cathedral and the edge of the Oborishte neighbourhood.

Doctors' Garden
Photo: Vassia Atanassova - Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Walks that pass here

Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church

Walk

After the liberation: a two-hour walk through the Sofia of 1878

A short first walk through four landmarks raised after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78: a doctors' memorial, the gold-domed cathedral, the Tsar Liberator and a mosque turned church.

~2 h in total
~1.5 km, ~20 min walking
Read the guide