Patriarch Evtimiy Boulevard is a central boulevard

Boulevard

A Boulevard is type of road, usually a wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare, divided with a median down the centre, and roadways along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery...

 in 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...

, 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...

. It is named after the 14th century Bulgarian Patriarch Saint Evtimiy of Tarnovo

Patriarch Evtimiy of Bulgaria

Saint Evtimiy of Tarnovo was Patriarch of Bulgaria between 1375 and 1393. Regarded as one of the most important figures of medieval Bulgaria, Evtimiy was the last head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the Second Bulgarian Empire...

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It lies between its crossing with the Vasil Levski Boulevard

Vasil Levski Boulevard

Vasil Levski Boulevard is a major boulevard in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It lies between the Freight Station Square at the Slivnitsa and Danail Nikolaev Boulevards and the area of the National Palace of Culture...

 and Graf Ignatiev Street

Graf Ignatiev Street

Graf Ignatiev Street , usually called Grafa is a popular central street in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. It was named after the Russian statesman and diplomat Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev...

 at the Patriarch Evtimiy Square

Patriarch Evtimiy Square

Patriarch Evtimiy Square , more popularly known as Popa , is a small urban square and a busy intersection in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria...

 and the boulevards Praga, Hristo Botev and Skobelev at the Pette kyosheta juncture. Among the most important streets it crosses are the Georgi Rakovski Street

Georgi Rakovski Street

Georgi Rakovski Street , usually called with its old name Rakovska, is an important street in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, located in the central area of the city. It is named after the famous Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Sava Rakovski...

, Frityov Nansen Street and Vitosha Boulevard

Vitosha Boulevard

Vitosha Boulevard is the main commercial street in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, which is abundant in many posh stores, restaurants and bars. It extends from the St Nedelya Square to the Southern Park...

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Its architecture is typical for Sofia during the 1930s and 1940s - mostly six-storey residential edifices with solid facades and relatively high and spacious flats.

History

The boulevard was reconstructed in the 1970s during the construction of the National Palace of Culture

National Palace of Culture

The National Palace of Culture , located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is the largest multifunctional congress, conference, convention and exhibition centre in Southeastern Europe...

 and its park. Until the reconstruction the western part had classical appearance with large trees and a green strip in the middle. The boulevard used to be two-way street until the mid 90s when it became one-way from the Graf Ignatiev Str to the Praga Blvd. The most characteristic transport since the 1930s is the trolley bus №1 but there are also many other lines.

Famous buildings

Northern side

• Sofia notary's office - a National Monument of Culture built in 1899 in Neo-Renaissance style.
• The Nakashev's pharmacy - on the crossing with the Vitosha Blvd, reconstructed in 1996 and popular place for meetings.
• St Georgi the New of Sofia Church, situated in a small park.

Southern side

• Odeon Cinema
• Ninth French Language School Alphonse de Lamartine
• First City Hospital
• Between the Frityov Nansen Str and Vitosha Blvd it borders with the park of the National Palace of Culture.