Capital City Library
Municipal public library on a bookish pedestrian square, founded by mayoral order in the late 1920s.
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This guide to the Capital City Library in Sofia opens in 1897, when a commission auditing the city government stumbles on something nobody expected to find in a municipal office. It follows the years that passed, and the mayor and the date in 1928 that the library still treats as its birthday. Best heard standing out on Slaveykov Square, with the library behind you.
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