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The Royal Palace, in fact called Prince's Palace (Bulgarian: Княжески дворец – Knyazheski dvorets) and later Tsar's Palace (Bulgarian: Царски дворец – Tsarski dvorets), is an architectural landmark of national historical and cultural significance, situated at Battenberg Square in the heart of Sofia, the capital of ...
While the Royal Palace in the centre of Sofia (today the National Art Gallery and National Ethnographic Museum) served representative purposes and the Euxinograd Palace near Varna was a summer residence, Vrana was the palace where the royal family of Bulgaria spent most of their time. Vrana Palace is situated at an elevation of 571 m. [1]
The royal palace, a typical example of Second Empire architecture with chateauesque connotations, was constructed in two stages, the first lasting between 1880 and 1882 during the rule of Knyaz Alexander Battenberg, when Austro-Hungarian architects under Viktor Rumpelmayer worked on the building. It was inaugurated on 26 December 1882 and ...
Old Royal Palace: Athens: historically the Royal Palace of Athens, today houses the Parliament: New Royal Palace: historically Crown Prince's Royal Palace, or Royal Palace of the Duke of Sparta, now the Presidential Manor, Royal Mansion: Psychiko: only Crown Prince Paul and Crown Princess Frederica residence, today private property, Athens ...
The palace is on the hill's central and plain part, which was a closed complex encircled by a fortified wall, two towers and two entrances, a main one from the north and one from the south. It featured a throne room , a palace church and a royal residential part and encompassed 4,872 square metres (52,440 sq ft).
The Royal Palace, which is now being used as the National Art Gallery at Battenberg Square 1 The former royal palace in 1917.. Prince Alexander I Square (Bulgarian: площад Княз Александър I, Ploshtad Knyaz Aleksandar I), often called simply Battenberg Square (площад Батенберг) is the largest square of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
Palace of Omurtag – site of the former royal palace of Omurtag of Bulgaria, ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire (815–831) in northeastern Bulgaria. Urvich – a medieval fortress in present-day Pancharevo , about 20 km from Sofia , built during the Second Bulgarian Empire by Emperor Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria .
Tsarska Bistritsa hunting lodge. Tsarska Bistritsa ("Tsar's Bistritsa"; Bulgarian: Царска Бистрица) is a former royal palace in southwestern Bulgaria, high in the Rila Mountains, just above the resort of Borovets and near the banks of the Bistritsa River.