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All gay-lesbian venues are in Sofia`s 1st and 2nd district. The city consists of 20 districts, they are arranged in a spiral. Bulgarian postal codes always consist of 4 digits. The first digit for Sofia is a 1. District 1 is 1000 Sofia, 1100 the second district, 1200 is the third district. XXX
There is a really great online map available at www.bgmaps.com. Click on the British flag to get to the
English version. You can either click on Sofia in the map or you enter a street name and house number (both Latin and Cyrillic characters are OK) to find a particular address.
Click here to enlarge the map
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Information hot line of the Sofia public transport company : 987 71 87
The Sofia public transport company has a
web page. There is no public transport between midnight and 5 am.
There are trams, buses, and trolley buses and one subway line. There are also a fleet of privately run marsh-route taxis which cover the more obscure routes (Ticket price 1 lev; pay the driver as you get on). You need to stop them on the road like a taxi; just look for mini busses with 8 to 15 seats, that have a number on the top. Most of them are white, some are dark blue.
Public transport runs daily from 5 am until 11.30 pm (buses), midnight (trams), the subway runs from 5 am until 11 pm; on Fridays and Saturdays until 11:30 pm. After 11:30 pm taxis are the only means of transportation.
Tickets
Since 18th of June 2006 fares are:
Single ticket 0.70 BGN
Sold by driver 0.80 BGN
Combined ticket for 2 journeys for 60 minutes 1.10 BGN
A ticket for ten journeys. 6.00 BGN (Keep the booklet until all are used)
Penalty fee for travel without ticket 7.00 BGN
One day pass for all lines 3.00 BGN
Five day pass for all lines 12.00 BGN
One month pass for one line 20.00 BGN
One month pass for two lines 34.00 BGN
One month pass for all lines 37.00 BGN
Three month pass for one line 60.00 BGN
Three month pass for two lines 98.00 BGN
Three month pass for all lines 110.00 BGN
Single trip tickets are sold at kiosks and newspaper stands at the major stops or by the driver of the vehicle. You have to validate the ticket using the metal punchers located near the windows.
Major Tram Lines
1, 7 Central Railway Station - Sheraton hotel - Vitosha Boulevard - National Palace of Culture NDK
2, 12 Central Railway Station - Graf Ignatiev Str. - Lozenets district
6 Central Railway Station - National Palace of Culture underpass - Lozenets district
9 Central Railway Station - National Palace of Culture underpass - Lozenets district - Kempinsky Zografsky Hotel
Major Bus lines
84 Sofia Airport - Sofia University
213, 313 Central Railway station - Lavov Most (Lions Bridge) - Tsarigradsko Shosse Boulevard - Mladost housing complex
94 Sofia University - National Palace of Culture - Hemus Hotel - Darvenitsa district - Studentski Grad (Student city)
Major Trolley Bus lines
1 Banishora district (near the Central Railway Station) - Opalchenska subway station - National Palace of Culture underpass - Sofia University - Hadji Dimitar district
2 Hadji Dimitar district - Sofia University - P. Evtimii Boulevard - Medical Academy - Borovo district
5 Banishora district (close to Central Railway Station) - Opalchenska subway station - National Palace of Culture underpass - Mladost housing complex
Subway
The only metro line runs northwest from Ploshtad Sveta Nedelya to the Lyulin suburb.
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Since June 2000 all legal and registered taxi cabs must be yellow and operate by meter. The rates per km are regulated: The average rate is between 0.49 and 0.59 BGN per kilometer (July 2006). Always check the table of fares. Day and night time tarifs are common. Daytime is 6 am until 10 pm. Starting and call-out charges must by law be displayed on the windows. Dispatchers and drivers usually speak only Bulgarian. That means you may need someone to help you order one by phone and you need to learn how to name your destination. When you order a taxi by phone they will give you a 3 digit number of the taxi which will come to pick you up. An additional fee is paid when ordering by phone.
The following companies are known to charge reasonable fees:
OK Supertrans 9732121
Yes 91119 & 91009
Inex 91919
Taxi S Express 91280
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