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Voluyak

Voluyak is a village in Vrabnitsa district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, located some 10 km northwest of the city center.

Voluyak
Voluyak · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Voluyak is a village in Vrabnitsa district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, located some 10 km northwest of the city center. As of 2024 it has 2,746 inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Voluyak

4 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
    Central Sofia Cemetery

    The Central Sofia Cemetery or the Orlandovtsi Cemetery is the main cemetery in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The cemetery has several chapels used by various Christian denominations, such as a Bulgarian Orthodox church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, a Roman Catholic chapel of Saint Francis of Assisi, an Armenian Apostolic chapel, a Jewish synagogue, etc.

    9.7 km · cemetery in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    National Polytechnical Museum

    The National Polytechnical Museum is a science museum located in Sofia, Bulgaria.

    9.5 km · museum in Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mall of Sofia

    Mall of Sofia is a shopping centre in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It was opened on 9 June 2006 and is located at the intersection of Aleksandar Stamboliyski Boulevard and Opalchenska Street.

    9.9 km · shopping mall in Sofia, Bulgaria · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Septemvri Stadium (Sofia)

    Stadion Septemvri is a multi-purpose stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    9.7 km · multi-purpose stadium in Bulgaria · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Voluyak

Airports
Sofia (SOF), 17 km · Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 129 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 154 km
Stations
Sofia, 9.3 km · Central Bus Station Sofia, 9.6 km · Opalchenska Metro Station, 9.8 km · Zapaden Park Metro Station, 7.2 km · Obelya Metro Station, 4.5 km
  • Plovdiv → Voluyak
    142 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · лв14–19
  • Burgas → Voluyak
    347 km · quickest by air, 4h 27m · лв110–170
  • Varna → Voluyak
    383 km · quickest by air, 4h 29m · лв110–170
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Voluyak

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 Voluyak. 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

    253 km
  2. 02
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    362 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    467 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    498 km

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

Around it

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Voluyak is 11 km from Sofia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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