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Stolichna Municipality

The Stolichna Municipality is an obshtina (municipality) in Sofia City Province, Western Bulgaria.

Stolichna Municipality
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The place

The Stolichna Municipality is an obshtina (municipality) in Sofia City Province, Western Bulgaria.

It is named after its administrative centre, the city of Sofia, which is also the capital of Sofia City Province and Sofia Province and the capital of Bulgaria as well.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stolichna Municipality

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

    1.9 km · Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bulgarian Orthodox Church

    The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with the other Eastern Orthodox churches. It is the first medieval recognised patriarchate outside the Pentarchy and the oldest Slavic Orthodox church, with some 6 million members in Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2 million members in a number of other European countries, Asia, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.

    1.9 km · Orthodox autocephalous church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Boyana Church

    The Boyana Church is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, in the Boyana quarter. In 1979, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

    6 km · church in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sofia University

    Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgarian: Софийски университет „Св.

    1.9 km · university in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Banya Bashi Mosque

    Banya Bashi Mosque is a Sunni Islamic mosque in Sofia, Bulgaria.

    1.9 km · mosque in Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Vasil Levski National Stadium

    Vasil Levski National Stadium, named after Bulgarian national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski, is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 43,230 seats and is located in the centre of Sofia, on the territory of the city's oldest and most famous park - the Borisova gradina.

    1.6 km · football stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    University of National and World Economy

    The University of National and World Economy is a public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. Notable alumni of the university are five Prime Ministers of Bulgaria – Reneta Indzhova, Stefan Sofiyanski, Ivan Kostov, Marin Raykov and Plamen Oresharski; the current managing director of the International Monetary Fund – Kristalina Georgieva; and the director of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics and former Minister of Finance of Bulgaria Simeon Djankov.

    4.7 km · university in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library

    The SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library is the national library of Bulgaria, situated in the capital city of Sofia. Founded on 4 April 1878, the library received the status of Bulgarian National Library three years later and the Bulgarian National Revival Archive was merged into it in 1924.

    2 km · library in Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    National Archaeological Museum, Bulgaria

    The National Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It occupies the building of the largest and oldest former Ottoman mosque in the city, originally known as Koca Mahmut Paşa Camii.

    1.6 km · archaeological museum in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Saint Sophia Church

    The Saint Sofia Church is a Bulgarian Orthodox church, located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Built as a church in the fourth century CE, the building was converted to a mosque in the 16th century and was restored as a basilica during the 19th and 20th centuries.

    1.9 km · church building in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Stolichna Municipality

Airports
Sofia (SOF), 8 km · Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 139 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 143 km
Stations
Sofia Airport, 7.6 km
  • Plovdiv → Stolichna Municipality
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · лв13–18
  • Burgas → Stolichna Municipality
    346 km · quickest by air, 4h 19m · лв100–160
  • Varna → Stolichna Municipality
    383 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · лв100–160
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stolichna Municipality

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 Stolichna Municipality. 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

    241 km
  2. 02
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    351 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    474 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    505 km

If you know how people move in Stolichna Municipality – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Stolichna Municipality

Stolichna Municipality is 2 km from Sofia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sofiacapital city of Bulgaria1.7 km
  • Busmantsivillage in Stolichna municipality, Sofia Capital oblast, Bulgaria9.5 km
  • Serdika Districtmunicipal district in Sofia4.4 km
  • Kubratovovillage in Stolichna municipality, Sofia Capital oblast, Bulgaria9.7 km
  • Serdicaancient city of Bulgaria2.3 km