Sofia with her owl

There were quantities of blocks of flats in the approaches to the city

Symmetry

Colonnade outside the department store

Market House

Inside

Synagogue

Mosque

Before the plaster goes on

Souvenirs

Opera House and Patron?

Alley

There were stalls selling paintings sacred and moderately profane.   Also needlework and tourists' mementos.   Peter bought a fridge magnate depicting the cathedral.

Alexander-Nevski Cathedral

Alexander-Nevski Cathedral photography is not allowed...   The singing was wonderful.

Is it a spider's web?

The University

Degrees were being presented when we looked round

There are marbled whites in the city too

The Russian Church

The Russian Church was built in 1912 and is dedicated to St. Nicholas, the miracle maker. It preserves the style of Moscow decorative arts, painting and architecture.

The roof is covered with green majolica tiles and crowned with five gold-plated onion domes. The exterior recently was renovated by the Moscow Patriarchate, which provided the gold.
 

Lion on the Presidential Palace

Fountain

Dragons

St. George and the Dragon

Palace guard changing

Nice to see a sparrow

Hotel Arte 

Owner has filled the hotel with his art collection

Breakfast

Marble tables

Doors in the evening

Wedding at the St. Nedelya Church

The Bride -high key version

Doors in the morning

Presidential Guards

Changing the Guard

It would take a brave wheelchair user to trust this modification!!

Housing is said to be affordable

More flats note the air-conditioning

Housing

St. Sophia and her daughters

http://www.saintsophia.net/

Rubbish

Down an alley

Old boys

More old boys

There was some excellent graffiti in the park around the National Palace of Culture

Sculpture

National Palace of Culture

The yuccas were in magnificent form