Sofia City Art Gallery
Former city casino and ballroom turned public gallery of Bulgarian art, beside a leafy central garden.
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This audio guide to the Sofia City Art Gallery takes you back to the building's first life as the City Casino, the capital's ballroom, and to a masked charity carnival thrown by National Theatre actors in February nineteen fifteen, with Europe at war and Bulgaria still neutral. It follows the night's guests, among them a minister's daughter, a young lieutenant and a painter, and the investigation that came after. Best heard from the street on the building's south side, facing the windows.
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