National Monument “Vasil Levski”
Granite obelisk with a bronze portrait marking where a revolutionary hero was hanged in 1873.
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This guide to the Vasil Levski Monument in Sofia stands on the ground where the revolutionary known as the Apostle of Freedom met the Ottoman authorities in February eighteen seventy-three. It follows him from a winter morning at a village inn near Lovech to a courtroom in Sofia, and asks why a city newly freed in eighteen seventy-eight struggled so long to honour him. It also touches Sofia's first city architect, the Czech Antonín Kolář, and the politics of his early sketches. Best heard standing at the foot of the obelisk, facing the bronze portrait.
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