Buxton is a south-western neighbourhood of Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

, the capital of Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. Part of Vitosha

Vitosha, Sofia

Vitosha is one of the 24 districts of Sofia, situated in the southern parts of the City on the foot of the Vitosha mountain. As of 2006 it has 42,953 inhabitants. The district includes 7 neighbourhoods: Boyana; Simeonovo; Dragalevtsi; Pavlovo; Buxton; Manastirski Livadi and Knyazhevo as well as...

 municipality, it lies between the Buxton Brothers (Bratya Buxton) Boulevard

Buxton Brothers Boulevard

Buxton Brothers Boulevard is a boulevard in south-western Sofia, Bulgaria. It connects Tsar Boris III Boulevard with the ring road...

, the Tsar Boris III Boulevard and the Sofia ringroad

Sofia ringroad

The Sofia ring road is an important thoroughfare surrounding Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The Ringroad is around 60 km long and is going to be extended in several stages by 2012, which will cost a total of around €300,000,000....

 adjacent to Boyana

Boyana

Boyana is a neighbourhood of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, part of Vitosha municipality and situated 8 km south of the city centre, in the outskirts of Vitosha. Boyana is typically regarded as one of the best and most expensive neighborhoods of Sofia to live in...

.

The neighbourhood was named after the brothers Charles

Charles Roden Buxton

Charles Roden Buxton was an English philanthropist and politician.He was born in London, the third son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet...

 and Noel Buxton, British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 public figures and prominent advocates of the Bulgarian position on the Macedonian Question in the Balkan Wars

Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...

 and World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

.. The central boulevard of the neighbourhood is also named after the brothers.

Buxton features mostly single-family houses and mid- to high-rise residential architecture from the 60s–80s. It is serviced by Secondary School #2 Academician Emiliyan Stanev

Emiliyan Stanev

Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

, Primary School #5 Ivan Vazov

Ivan Vazov

Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

 and Secondary Specialized School and Kindergarten for Hearing-impaired Children #2. The Vitosha municipality building is also located in the neighbourhood, and there is a Fantastico

Fantastico (supermarket chain)

Fantastico is a Bulgarian supermarket chain founded in 1991. Fantastico is part of the retail sector and primarily sells foodstuffs., the company operates 32 stores in Sofia, including a do-it-yourself store and eight cash and carry hypermarkets...

supermarket in Buxton.