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.

Every way there

Plovdiv → Serdica
132 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · лв13–17
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Burgas → Serdica
340 km · quickest by air, 4h 2m · лв100–150
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Varna → Serdica
378 km · quickest by air, 4h 4m · лв100–150
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Serdica, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Serdica has

YScheduled flightsSofia (SOF), 8 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 9 timetable feeds for this country, 6 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

42.698°, 23.323°

How locals move

Getting around Serdica the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Vyacheslav Argenberg (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.