Cabin lift "Simeonovo - Aleko" (the first station)
Lower station of a six-kilometre gondola climbing over a thousand metres to a mountain ski area.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Simeonovo station of the gondola up Vitosha, on the edge of Sofia, is about the man whose name the lift carries: Aleko Konstantinov, the lawyer and satirist behind Bay Ganyo. It follows him from the Chicago World Exhibition of eighteen ninety-three to a summer day in eighteen ninety-five, when he invited the city's nature lovers up the mountain. Best heard at the lower station, watching the cabins leave.
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