Lions' Bridge
Stone bridge over a small river, guarded at each corner by four bronze lions cast in Vienna.
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This guide to Lions' Bridge in Sofia starts not with the bronze lions but with an earlier crossing on the same spot, and a wealthy Ottoman merchant the villagers nicknamed Mad Halil for buying up their hay in a cheap year. It then jumps to eighteen eighty-nine, when Czech builders and a Viennese foundry arrived with a very large bill. Stand near one of the four corner lions and look closely at its mouth.
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