Top Attractions in Sofia Bulgaria for Travelers

[@flavitavi8451]

Happy to see am visiting there next week

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

Great 👍Enjoy your trip!

[@elterrifico9522]

Good info. This brings back memories of my visit a few years ago. I was lucky enough to see a production of Carmen at the Sofia opera house. Also worth a look. And my new drinking game is taking a shot every time Warren says ‘Ottomens’ Thankfully Julie was allowed to speak near the end. 😉

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

I love it! That's funny

[@norrsken1828]

really enjoyed your Vlog and thanks for all the valuable information.

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

Thank you for the compliments and for watching us😊

[@BadlyHonedBytes]

People certainly knew about the existence of Serdica's ruins before the construction of the metro in the 2000s - as you seem to guess, pieces of it were found during the construction of the large buildings surrounding Independence Square. The underpass between the Presidency and TsUM also exposed one of the city gates and you had to walk on ancient pavement to cross the street, long before the current glass-domed expansion was built. As for the hot spring temperature, it's likely that 46 C is the temperature at the source but the water cools down somewhat before it reaches the fountain. It's possible that the pipes are laid deliberately in such a way as to avoid scalding the users.

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

Yes, basically if you’re digging anywhere in the area you have a good chance at finding something. Your thoughts on the water are probably correct.

[@AlexanderBotmat]

Que hermoso es Sofía Bulgaria 🇧🇬

[@kaybrickey7475]

Great video, loved all the history!!

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

❤️😊

[@rubytuesday9539]

We ate at Happy the last evening we were in Bulgaria. We invited a solo diner from UK to join us and had a wonderful dinner. Sofia's Metro system is pretty good too.

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

That’s great, we never tried the metro there unfortunately.

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

That’s great, we never tried the metro there unfortunately.

[@SecondWindd]

Where are you from Ruby? I have seen you commenting on a bunch of videos about Bulgaria. I saw that you have been to a bunch of different places. Do you happen to live/have a house in Bulgaria or just visit it often? Just wondering

[@rubytuesday9539]

@@SecondWindd I live in Minnesota. Visited Bulgaria in March and also transitted through it in 1984. No other direct connections.

[@SecondWindd]

@@rubytuesday9539 I see. I am Bulgarian but live in Pennsylvania. If you have any questions about Bulgaria feel free to ask.

[@RositsaPetrovarjp7]

41-42 degrees centigrade is the temperature at the Sofia Central Bath when it comes out, which is what is used to treatment

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

☺️👍

[@theswede5402]

Have you noticed any major inflation in prices? They say its really bad down there now.

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

Yes inflation is hitting everything.

[@zubizam8021]

nice video

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

Thank you for watching.

[@richardm893]

Its amazing how the Celts never get mentioned in most Bulgarian videos, its as if people dont want it to be known that the Celts were not from Ireland like leprechauns, they actually named most of Europes rivers and all over Europe before anyone else. You see, pointing out the Celts were all over Europe makes people think that Celts hatched in Ireland and traveled south, but the truth is they traveled North and West (from modern day Turkey and the Levant). Milesians from Miletus can be known sometimes as Phoenicians and other times as Celts. They were both seafaring people and lived in the same places (even after the Phoenicians disappeared off the face of the earth. The truth of who the Phoenicians were is another fact thats continuously left out of history, they only named Europe, gave Greeks their alphabet, brought us people like Pythagoras, Euclid, Thales, etc. and somehow they are all now thought of as Canaanites or the people of modern day Lebanon. They were no more Canaanite biologically or modern day Lebanese biologically than modern day Washington DC or Newark NJ is to George Washington today.

[@elterrifico9522]

Warren has certainly stirred up a hornet’s nest with this video. This could lead to a new round of revolution.

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

Lol 😂

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

You have certainly provided new information to me regarding the Celts.

[@richardm893]

@@WarrenJulieTravel You are going to have to put the information and logic together with the Celts because there is obviously a deliberate attempt to delete them from everything and focus on Rome. Also you will have to decide when the Celts just woke up and called themselves Celts and when did history stop calling them Celts because they were still there before and still there after. Understand as I said that history is being deliberately stolen from us. As if the Celt (one aspect of their name) had nothing to offer, no language or written language to investigate, no traditions, no art, no methods of navigation or warfare etc. when they pretty much had most of it before the Romans got their boots on (whom are also related to the Celts and not the Mafia like folks in Italy today).

[@RositsaPetrovarjp7]

Nope Dude. The name Europe is Thracian, same as Rodope, Merope. The River Hebros, Evros, is clearly Thracian/Bulgarian. The Danube was called Istros, again a Thracian name. The Greeks got the alphabet from Cadmus, the teacher of Orhpeus who is Thracian. They also got their religion from Orpheus. Just a few facts. But very likely the Celts and the Gauls are our more distant cousins ( in comparison to Medes, Parthians, etc). They were neighbors to the Thracians in both Asia Minor and the Balkans. The capital of the Balkan Celts was called Tyle today's village of Tulovo, near Stara Zagora. The name easily translates in modern Bulgarian! Fir Bolg are one of the founding tribes of Ireland. We also have tartan and bagpipes in Bulgaria. It is clearly that our bagpipes are older by their construction and sound. Tartan is not used in the same way, though it is a very common pattern in South Bulgaria, most famously on the woolen blankets from the Rodope mountains. And sheep are a way of life in all mountainous regions of the Balkans and Asia Minor

[@RositsaPetrovarjp7]

Most Bulgarian churches were forcibly converted into mosques by the Turks, including the eponymous Saint Sophia Cathedral, Saint George Rotunda and countless others. And if that was not the case, the mosques were constructed on top of preexisting Christian churches or pagan shrines. Banya Bashi mosque was built on the foundation of a Christian Church and most likely that is the case of the Black Mosque and a reason why the building was preserved ( in the 19th century people still knew more). Practically all Muslim tekes, shrines to saints, are built on ancient religious sites, such as Demir Baba Teke in Sboryanovo UNESCO site complex in N. East Bulgaria. So what you are saying about mosques being turned into churches is SIMPLY NOT TRUE. Muslim temples of the Ottomans, even though they are examples of Roman architecture, have different orientation and follow different canons, so mosques cannot become churches, unless they were churches before! FYI. There is a church in the foundation of Unicredit Bulbank on the square of tolerance

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

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[@RositsaPetrovarjp7]

Actually Christians were not allowed to build any new churches under the Ottomans and existing churches had to be lower than Muslim shrines. The square of tolerance also has a Catholic Cathedral!

[@WarrenJulieTravel]

Interesting information 🙂

[@georgitemelkov9995]

Не е вярно, че сме нямали право да строим църкви. Могли сме да строим, но не е трябвало да бъдат по високи от турчин на кон, затова и много са подкопани под земята

[@richardm893]

What happened to the Jews of Europe? Depending on who you ask and what the actual facts are you will get a whirlwind of different answers (some flat out Walter Mitty bonkers). But good luck trying to teach the truth of that one.

[@richardm893]

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