SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library
National library founded in 1878, guarding Slavonic manuscripts behind a monument to two saints.
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This guide to the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia is set on the twenty-fourth of May, when a procession of schoolchildren, teachers and clergy fills the boulevard and gathers at the monument to the two saints out front. It follows a hymn every Bulgarian child learns, and a music teacher in the town of Lovech in nineteen-oh-one who needed a song and had no words. Best heard standing beside the monument, facing the library doors.
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