Vitosha

The Vitosha neighborhood is a former villa zone in the south of Sofia and is now a residential area. It belongs to the Lozenets district, not to the Vitosha district, with which it is easily confused. It lies between the foot of Mount Vitosha and the Ring Road to the south, Sofia Zoo, the Hunting Park and the Dianabad neighborhood to the north, Nikola Gabrovski Blvd. to the east, and the Krastova Vada neighborhood to the west.

The first villas here were built in the 1960s. The first high-rise buildings appeared in the late 1990s, and since the early 2000s the area has been built up intensively with 4-6 storey buildings, gated complexes and a few single-family houses. Many apartments are large. Diplomatic residences lie between the neighborhood and Studentski Grad.

The main road is Simeonovsko Shose Blvd. Public transport is more limited than in the central neighborhoods, and most residents use a car. Plans to extend metro line M2 toward Studentski Grad include a Simeonovsko Shose station, but with no announced construction date.

Vitosha suits people looking for a larger apartment in a new building, close to the mountain and to Sofia Zoo.