St. Sofia Basilica
Early Christian brick basilica whose name the capital took, with a revered poet's grave behind its altar.
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This guide to St. Sofia Basilica in Sofia leaves the church's front door behind and walks you around to the garden at its back, to an unlikely stone and the writer it belongs to. It follows Ivan Vazov, the novelist Bulgarians call the Patriarch of their literature, and the wishes he left about where he should lie. Best heard standing in the garden behind the altar.
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