Film and TV locations in Sofia City
20 places to shoot in Sofia City, Bulgaria: 6 offices, schools and public buildings, 4 theatres, arenas and venues, 2 hospitals, prisons and institutions and 8 more. 15 have a photo and 3 carry practical details the location publishes itself.
What is here
- Offices, schools and public buildings 6
- Theatres, arenas and venues 4
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 2
- Film studios and backlots 2
- Transport and infrastructure 2
- Churches and monasteries 1
- Hotels and interiors 1
- Bars, restaurants and shops 1
- Mountains and wilderness 1
Boyana Church
Church & monastery
Small three part medieval church at the foot of Vitosha, with 1259 wall paintings, a stone and brick exterior and a walled garden of old trees.
Business Park Sofia
Office, school & public building
Office campus in Mladost with glazed low rise blocks, landscaped courtyards, underground parking, a conference centre and its own metro station.
Ivan Vazov National Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
Neoclassical theatre of 1907 facing the City Garden, with a portico and quadriga, a gilded auditorium of about 750 seats and foyers on two levels.
National Museum of Military History
Office, school & public building
Military museum with indoor galleries and a large outdoor park of tanks, artillery, aircraft, missiles and radar vehicles on hard standing.
National Opera and Ballet
Theatre, arena & venue
Opera house completed in 1953, with a colonnaded stone front, a horseshoe auditorium seating about 1,100 and a deep stage with fly tower.
National Palace of Culture (NDK)
Theatre, arena & venue
Congress centre of 1981 with a hexagonal concrete and glass form, thirteen halls including a 3,000 seat auditorium, wide lobbies and a large forecourt.
Seen in: Sofia International Film Festival is held here
Nu Boyana Film Studios
Studio & backlot
Studio lot of about 30 hectares with ten sound stages, a water tank with an underwater stage and standing backlot sets for New York, London and a Roman city.
Seen in: 300: Rise of an Empire, The Expendables 3, London Has Fallen, Rambo: Last Blood
Ten sound stages, water tank with underwater stage, motion capture stage, construction workshops, camera, lighting and grip rental, props, costumes...
Sofia Airport
Transport & infrastructure
International airport with two passenger terminals, check in halls, piers and stands, a general aviation apron and a single runway.
Sofia Central Mineral Baths (Regional History Museum)
Office, school & public building
Former public bath house of 1913 in Vienna Secession style, now the city museum, with tiled halls, arcaded facades and a mineral water colonnade outside.
Sofia Central Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Main station of 1974 with a concrete shell roof over a raised concourse, platforms below, tiled halls and a long approach of tracks and signal gantries.
Sofia Court House
Hospital, prison & institution
Neoclassical courts building of 1940 on Vitosha Boulevard, with a colonnaded front, a marble entrance hall, wide staircases and panelled court rooms.
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Office, school & public building
Main university building of 1934 with a colonnaded front, a domed aula, marble stairs, long corridors and tiered lecture halls.
TZUM Sofia
Bar, restaurant & shop
Central department store of 1957 in the Largo, with a stone clad facade, a full height atrium, marble floors and galleried shopping levels.
Vasil Levski National Stadium
Theatre, arena & venue
National stadium of 1953 inside Borisova Gradina park, with a colonnaded entrance, an athletics track, about 43,000 seats and floodlight masts.
Vitosha Nature Park
Mountains & wilderness
Mountain park on the edge of Sofia rising to 2,290 metres, with boulder rivers, spruce forest, ski runs, a chairlift and a road to the plateau.
Alexandrovska University Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Teaching hospital founded in 1879, a campus of late nineteenth century pavilions and later clinical blocks with long corridors, wards and lecture theatres.
National Museum of History
Office, school & public building
State museum in the former government residence at Boyana, a 1970s modernist block with marble halls, wide staircases and a wooded park.
PrimeTime Studios
Studio & backlot
Television and film pavilion complex on the Sofia ring road, with separate control rooms for each studio, camera cranes and modular video walls.
Sofia Balkan Palace
Hotel & interiors
Hotel inside the 1950s Largo ensemble in the centre of Sofia, with a stone colonnade, a marble lobby, ballrooms and meeting suites.
SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library
Office, school & public building
National library of 1953 next to the university, with a neoclassical facade, a columned entrance hall and large reading rooms lined with shelving.
What Bulgaria pays back
Bulgaria runs the Film Incentive Scheme (rebate on costs under the Film Industry Act), worth 25%. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
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