Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)
Learned society's seat on the parliament square, with a sculpted entrance of science and art.
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This guide to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia begins on an autumn day in eighteen ninety, when the board of the Bulgarian Literary Society gathered on an empty plot to turn the first sod. It reaches back to a private house in Brăila, across the Danube, where emigrants founded the Society before Bulgaria was a state. Along the way you'll meet the building's unexpected first tenant. Best heard at the corner of the older two-storey block.
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