Zaimov Park
Central green park with fountains, flowerbeds, tennis courts, playgrounds and café terraces.
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This guide to Zaimov Park in Sofia is about a pleasant patch of fountains, tennis courts and playgrounds whose name has refused to sit still. It follows General Vladimir Zaimov, an army officer executed in nineteen forty-two, the mountain meadow of Oborishte and the April Uprising, and a city council that keeps coming back to the same question. Best heard on a bench by the fountain, with the playground in earshot.
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