The Monument of Saint Sofia - Patron of City
Copper and bronze woman with an owl and laurel wreath, crowned atop a tall column.
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This guide to the Statue of Sofia in Sofia looks up at the copper and bronze woman who replaced Lenin on this crossroads in the winter of two thousand. It follows the sculptor Georgi Chapkanov, the city council that approved her, and the churchmen who did not like the name she was meant to carry. Stand where you can see the owl on her left arm clearly.
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