Eagles Bridge

The 19th century Eagles Bridge (Orlov Most) is on the East side of the Sofia University.It is visible at the end of Tsarigradsko Shosse ("King and City Highway"), which begins at the Evlogy Georgiev Blvd. canal and heads southeast out of Sofia, towards Plovdiv. In the area there are several large parks. The biggest one is Borisova Gradina, or Boris' Garden with Soviet Socialist-style monuments to the Russian Army who helped liberate Bulgaria from the Ottomans in 1878. The Boris’ Garden is a vast area of trees, paths, tennis courts, two stadiums, lots of playgrounds and fountains (currently dry).

Crossing the canal and Eagles Bridge from Borisova Gradina will bring you to yet another curiosity. Skateboarders, rollerbladers and bikers perform acrobatics on makeshift ramps in the area around the towering Monument to the Soviet Army and various other Socialist-style statues, which are now painted with graffiti and covered with poster advertisments. The monument itself is huge, with a 9-metre-high bronze statue of a Russian soldier, side-by-side with a Bulgarian worker and a peasant mother and her child, on top of a 34 metre high obelisk-shaped column. Currently under the Borisova Gradina an underground train system is being built which caused lots of trees to be cut down.