8/17 Saturday
There’s
nothing Bob likes so much as a yard full of decommissioned aircraft, so we go
to spend our day at the Museum of Military History. This place is not so hard
to find, and we have a pleasant walk through the city to get there. We come up
to it from a back street. It’s so odd to be walking along a block of apartments
and find yourself staring into the barrels of a dozen anti-aircraft guns.
The
museum is large, with the grounds full of tanks, planes, amphibious trucks and
missile launchers covering several blocks. The building of exhibits is five
stories full. The exhibits start in Roman times, and works through the centuries of
warfare in Bulgaria. There are military uniforms, swords, guns, maps, dioramas,
sounds of guns firing, soldiers charging, lots of huge paintings of battle
scenes. We climb the stairs to the next floor, and the next, it goes on and on.
On the top floor, there is a special collection of swords and guns from a
private donor. Then we have an unusual exhibit in a room full of military
awards, medals and ribbons. Some of them are very pretty.
1 Video Included
Sofia Military Museum
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