Crystal Garden
Leafy central square named after a vanished restaurant, watched over by a split sculpted head.
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This guide to the Crystal Garden in central Sofia is about the people who worked in it, from the vanished Crystal restaurant that gave the park its name to the artists and antique dealers who traded under its trees. Above all it follows the three craftsmen behind the huge sculpted head of Stefan Stambolov, and a July day in eighteen ninety-five when a former prime minister set off for a club near his home. Stand facing the head to listen.
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