Cherni Vrah
Highest summit of Vitosha, with a weather station, rescue post and sweeping views over the capital.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cherni Vrah, the summit of Vitosha above Sofia, follows the writer Aleko Konstantinov, the self-styled Happy Man, and the August day in eighteen ninety-five when hundreds answered his call to climb. It touches his travels to Chicago and Niagara Falls, the poet who came along, and the coach ride in eighteen ninety-seven that put his nickname to the test. Best heard beside the summit weather station, facing down toward the city.
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