National Palace of Culture (NDK)
Vast communist-era congress and arts centre with eight floors, mosaics and a 3,000-seat hall.
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This guide to the National Palace of Culture in Sofia follows Lyudmila Zhivkova, the communist leader's daughter who ran Bulgarian culture, and the vast hall raised for the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the Bulgarian state in nineteen eighty-one. It touches the Western scholars flown in for its gala and the whispers about nepotism around her father's court. You'll also hear about the concrete monument that once faced the building across these gardens, so it's best heard on the plaza looking toward the main facade.
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