Central Sofia Cemetery Park
Sprawling historic cemetery of tree-shaded plots, war graves and carved stone portrait headstones.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Central Sofia Cemetery, the sprawling Orlandovtsi burial ground in Sofia, looks past the famous graves to the people who make a living around them: the stonemasons, undertakers and florists working from shacks by the gates. It follows how their commissions shifted from angels and obelisks to the black stone portraits of the nineteen nineties. Best heard walking inward from the main entrance.
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