Free Sofia Tour's Blog

The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph recommends Free Sofia Tour! An article about the city says: “Be sure to join a free English-language sightseeing walking tour of the city centre.The tours operate every weekday at 6pm, and 11am and 6pm at weekends. To join a walk, simply meet outside the Palace of Justice (Sudebna Palata). See www.freesofiatour.com for more information.”

We are already on YouTube. Did you know that Sofia has been featured on Euronews? Or that you can see it from eagle’s eye with a 3-gigapixel panorama? Check it out. You can suggest videos, share ours, comment on them or help us make our amazing city more visible in any other way you can think of 🙂

Great article about Free Sofia Tour in the Bulgarian “Tema” magazine, online article only in Bulgarian. You can also read the scanned article from the magazine (again only in Bulgarian).  

Last month Free Sofia Tour was presented on the air of Bulgarian National Radio, interview only in Bulgarian. Since then we are already ten people and we are currently planning the launching of the daily morning tour at 11 AM.

Free Sofia Tour was featured on the Rock Around the Globe blog. Here’s some of the highlights about the tour as well as Sofia and Bulgaria in general: “We found nothing really noticeable during our first tour in the grey and under renovation city centre. We heard then about a free Sofia tour organized every day by a local NGO at 6pm and we didn’t regret to do it. Sometimes one just needs a different perspective! 😉 So we discovered more about the Bulgarian History: Slavonic and Bulgarian origins of the country, the creation of the Cyrillic alphabet, five centuries of Ottoman domination, the liberation, the communist period and so on!!!” “The city conserves buildings from its different historical periods and reveals strange similarities between those periods. For example, the Ottomans as well as the communist regime at different level tried to minimize the orthodox religion of the country.” Thanks for the good words, Axelle & Luis!

The guide idea was born in 2005 when photographer Cliff Norton and his wife Andrea first visited Bulgaria visiting friends and fell in love with the local people and their wonderfull country. Cliff and Andrea then spent the next 5 years rebuilding and visiting their Bulgarian cottage in a rural village of the Black Sea Coast. Now living the BBC programe Goodlife with pigs, chickens and sheep. The guide is a growing resource of information for the visitor to Bulgaria as well as some use to the expat.