"Bulgaria" Hall
Interwar modernist concert hall built for symphonic music, home of the city's philharmonic orchestra.
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This guide to Bulgaria Hall in Sofia starts not with music but with appetite: the old Alcazar Restaurant that once stood on this plot, and the interwar complex of hotel, restaurant and winter garden that architects Stancho Belkovski and Ivan Danchov built around a concert hall. It follows the hall from its opening night in October nineteen thirty-seven through a wartime bomb and a lost organ. Best heard on Aksakov Street, by the hall's public entrance.
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