{"id":199,"date":"2007-11-27T21:39:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=199"},"modified":"2007-11-27T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T11:39:42","slug":"more-sightseeing-in-sofia-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/bulgaria\/things-to-see-in-sofia\/more-sightseeing-in-sofia-bulgaria","title":{"rendered":"More Sightseeing in Sofia &#8211; Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll know when you&#8217;ve reached the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Bulgaria\/Sofia\/IMG_7904.jpg.html\" title=\"President's Administrative quarters, Sofia\">President&#8217;s administrative quarters <\/a>when you see these smartly attired guards of honor <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/28046-2\/DSC_2713.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Presidential quarters, Sofia, Bulgaria\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"Presidential quarters, Sofia, Bulgaria\" \/>standing at the entrance to this building.\u00a0 Alternatively,\u00a0if you can read some Cyrillic, the words\u00a0below the crest\u00a0tells you that this is the Republic of Bulgaria &#8211;\u00a0President.\u00a0 \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Bulgaria\/Sofia\/IMG_7925.jpg.html\" title=\"Changing of the guards, Sofia - Bulgaria\">changing of the guards <\/a>of honor occur daily on the hour and if you&#8217;re lucky, you&#8217;ll see them <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/28110-2\/IMG_7925.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Changing of the guards, Sofia - Bulgaria\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Changing of the guards, Sofia - Bulgaria\" \/>trouping off in formation.\u00a0 Ladies who love the sight of men in uniform &#8211; you&#8217;ll be impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Opposite from the Sheraton Hotel, we came upon\u00a0the Church of St. Nedelya. Nedelya was built in the period 1856-1863 on top of remains of the Roman town of Serdica.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a lovely and unique church which was almost demolished after a bomb explosion destroyed most of its original frame.\u00a0 Our tour director mentioned the attempted assasination of King Boris III, perpetrated by leftist extremists, but\u00a0 didn&#8217;t say where the church was.\u00a0 We were very thrilled when we saw the plaque on the outside wall which confirmed that this was church where the 1925 assasination attempt took place.\u00a0 King Boris was late for service that day and\u00a0survived the assasination attempt, although many innocent people perished. 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