Slaveykov Square
Pedestrian square with a bronze bench of two writers, father and son, and a long bookselling past.
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This guide to Slaveykov Square in Sofia follows a father and son who now share a bronze bench here: Petko Slaveykov, the writer who bought a house on this spot in eighteen seventy-nine, and his youngest son Pencho, the poet who rose to run the National Library. It reaches into a political quarrel of nineteen eleven and a journey toward Switzerland and Italy. Start at the bench, with both figures in view.
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