Vitosha Boulevard
Pedestrian shopping avenue of cafés, 1930s-style lamps and kiosks, aimed at a mountain skyline.
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This guide to Vitosha Boulevard in Sofia starts with a puzzle about money: a street once ranked among the world's priciest, and rent figures that seem to say otherwise. It follows the street from a modest lane of one-storey houses to an interwar trading avenue, then into the city's twenty-first-century rebuild of its benches, lamps, kiosks and tram tracks. Best heard standing mid-boulevard, facing south.
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