Doctors' Garden
Leafy park around a stone pyramid carved with the names of war medics, ringed by Roman fragments.
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This guide to the Doctors' Garden in Sofia starts with a memorial prayer chanted in a city park on the eve of Bulgaria's Liberation Day. It follows the doctors, nurses and orderlies of the war of eighteen seventy-seven and seventy-eight whose names are carved into the stone, and a count that refuses to settle. Stand in front of the pyramid, where you can read the columns of names.
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