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Historical name of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria

Serdica

Serdica or Sardica is the historical Roman city that was located in today's Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

Serdica
Serdica · Vyacheslav Argenberg
The place

Serdica or Sardica is the historical Roman city that was located in today's Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Serdica

Airports
Sofia (SOF), 8 km · Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 139 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 144 km
  • Plovdiv → Serdica
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · лв13–17
  • Burgas → Serdica
    340 km · quickest by air, 4h 2m · лв100–150
  • Varna → Serdica
    378 km · quickest by air, 4h 4m · лв100–150
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No local-transport research exists yet for Serdica

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Serdica. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextaccessible by public transport) To the southwest: industrial Pernik on the other side of Vitosha; further away is Kyustendil, "Bulgaria's orchard" under the Osogovo Mountain on the border To the south, under the slopes of Rila: Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad, with the Rila Monastery, the most famous in Bulgaria and a (suitable for a day trip from Sofia) To the southeast, closer: Samokov and the mountain/ski resorts of Borovets and Malyovitsa Elsewhere in Bulgaria: Plovdiv – Bulgaria's second most populous city, with good highway and rail connections to Sofia.

From Wikivoyage: Sofia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    242 km
  2. 02
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    352 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    474 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    505 km

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