Borisova Gradina Park
Sprawling historic park of shaded alleys, lakes, a rose garden and towering century-old trees.
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This guide to Borisova Gradina in Sofia follows Daniel Neff, a Swiss gardener lured from the Romanian royal court in the eighteen-eighties to turn open ground into the young capital's first great park. It is a story about a nursery, ten thousand saplings and one man's favourite tree. Along the way you meet the gardeners who inherited his plan, and a lake whose residents have quietly changed. Best heard on one of the shaded main alleys.
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