Bulgarian Communism - Private legacy tour

Bulgarian Communism - Private legacy tour

In this Day-tour, you’ll learn what it was like from the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain. How it all started, which were the main figures, how did they live and work in the name of the Bulgarian communist ideal! You’ll get to know many of the communist slogans.

All of the above will help you understand better the things you’ll face in this tour - huge concrete buildings and residential blocks, deserted and crumbling houses and monuments, huge factories and mills from the communist era in Bulgaria.

In a 50km radius, we’ll visit different emblematic places in and outside Sofia so we can learn more about the central planning, government control and censorship, and the contrasting lifestyle of normal people and the communist leaders during the regime.

We’ll feel at the same time the power and might of that age as well as its downfall by visiting the places where hammer and sickle used to forge the Bulgarian communist ideal!

Itinerary
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Pass By: Sofia History Museum, pl.Banski 1, Sofia 1000 Bulgaria

The tour starts at 09:00 am when our tripvam representative will pick you up from your hotel.

We depart for Bankya where is situated the deserted residency of the ex-leader of Bulgaria during communism. Todor Zhivkov was ahead of the country between 1954-1989!

The building was built in the architectural style of the late communism while its walls are keeping the secrets of that age.

After Bankya we’ll visit the biggest residential estate in Bulgaria which was built during the communism – Sofia’s Liulin neighborhood which has a population of about 121000 and that makes it larger than most Bulgarian cities!

We’ll also visit the Historical Museum where is situated the city residency of Todor Zhivkov.

In the Museum of Socialist art, we’ll be able to see what the Bulgarian art was looking during the communist era which lasted between 1944-1989.

Next is the Soviet army monument – one of the symbols of the socialist rule and the then big brother the Soviet Union which defeated the fascism.

Our next stop is NDK – the National Palace of Culture which is the largest congress hall on the Balkans and nowadays still holds the annual congress of the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Our tour will end at about 6:00 pm.