ulitsa "Tsar Shishman"
Pedestrian-friendly shopping street of independent boutiques, bookshops, cafes and small bars.
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This guide to Shishman Street in Sofia follows the tsar whose name it almost certainly carries: Ivan Shishman, ruler of Bulgaria in the years the medieval kingdom fell to the Ottomans. It moves between the siege of Tarnovo, the Danube fortress of Nikopol and the villages of the Sofia valley, where his story kept being retold. Best heard strolling between the bookshops and bars near the Graf Ignatiev end.
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