It's funny how buildings and places one is familliar with attract so much attention from abroad. These urban places, that we're so used to see and to walk by, the old buildings, churches, universities, places meant for meetring our friends are somehow objects of our urban "background".

But to foreign travellers, all kinds of tourists and foreign advertising agencies they obtain some magical attraction. Such place in Sofia, Bulgaria is the st. Alexander Nevski cathedral. It is the largest eastern orthodox temple in the Balkans and one of the largest in the whole world.

It was built after the Russo-Turkish War in honor to the Russian soldiers who died in the war and to celebrate the liberation of Bulgarian people and establishment of the Third Bulgarian ...