Food & drink area
Tsar Ivan Shishman Street
A narrow street of independent cafés, wine bars and small shops.
One of the nicest streets in the centre for an evening out: small places, terraces in summer and a relaxed crowd.
Walks that pass here
Walk
Vitosha Boulevard, NDK and South Park
An easy afternoon-into-evening walk: down the main pedestrian street, around NDK and into South Park, then back for dinner.
- ~3 h 45 min in total
- ~4.7 km, ~1 h walking
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