Bulgaria
Sofia-grad
Municipality of the Capital

Central Railway Station

The Metro station Central Railway serves on the Sofia Metro in . It opened on 31 August 2012. Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money.
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Photo: Модернатор, CC0.
  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: metro station in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Central Railway Metro station”, “Central Railway Metro Station”, “Centralna zhelezopatna gara”, and “Централна железопътна гара”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sofia Central Station and Lions‘ Bridge.

Railway station
Photo: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sofia Central Railway Station is the main passenger railway station of , the capital of , as well as the largest railway station in the country. is situated 160 metres north of Central Railway Station.

Bridge
Photo: Stolichanin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lions' Bridge is a bridge over the Vladaya River in the centre of , the capital of , built 1889–1891 by Czech architect Václav Prošek, his brother Jozef and his cousins Bohdan and Jiří. is situated 700 metres southeast of Central Railway Station.

Mosque
Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0.
is a Sunni Islamic in , . is situated 1¼ km south of Central Railway Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Largo and Sofia.

Locality
Photo: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an architectural ensemble of three Socialist Classicism buildings around Independence Square in central , the capital of . It was designed and built in the 1950s with the intention of becoming the city's new representative centre.

Photo: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital and largest city of , with about 2 million citizens. It is a dynamic European capital, distinguished by its unique combination of European and communist-style architecture as well as many beautiful Orthodox churches, including the grand Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the medieval frescos of Boyana Church.

Suburb
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Central Railway Station.

Central Railway Station

Latitude
42.71076° or 42° 42′ 39″ north
Longitude
23.32055° or 23° 19′ 14″ east
Inception
August 31st, 2012
Operator
Metropolitan EAD
Network
public transport in Sofia
Open location code
8GJ5P86C+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 727643272
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q3624028
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Central Railway Station” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Метростанция „Централна жп гара“”
  • French: “Gare Centrale”
  • Russian: “Централна ж. п. гара”
  • Russian: “Центральный вокзал”
  • Ukrainian: “Центральний вокзал”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Central Railway Station”. Photo: Модернатор, CC0.