The City Garden
Oldest public park in the centre, with chess players and a view of the National Theatre.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the City Garden in Sofia turns on the twenty-seventh of March, 1891, when a group of plotters came to the garden's east entrance looking for Prime Minister Stefan Stambolov. It also takes in the young garden of that era, with its coffeehouse, its musicians' kiosk and the gardeners who shaped it. Best heard by the east entrance, facing the square and the old royal palace.
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