View of Sofia and the Lions' Bridge Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950 Anelia Kassabova editor Centre for Southeast European History, University Graz Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:vase.713 Издателска къща "Минало" Publishing house "Minalo" K-16 Clothing Building and Construction Structures Settelments Energy and Power Domestic Trade Exchange Land Transport International Relations State Religious Beliefs Religious Practices Bulgaria Sofia Sofia 23.32415,42.69751 Postcard Photographer 1911 after Dimitar Anastasov Karastoyanov Karastoyanov, Dimitar Anastasov Panorama photograph of a street with two- and three-storey buildings. At the centre of the photograph there is a bridge with a parapet and large bronze sculptures of lions at the four corner points of the bridge. In the background, at the far end of the street, one can see a minaret as well as the cupolas of an Orthodox church and of a Synagogue. There are people in rural and urban clothes in the street as well as several vehicles: a tramway, a number of horse- and ox-drawn carts, and a few carriages. Title in Cyrillic and Latin. Recto: name of the photographer and "Neubert" - probably the publisher. Lions' Bridge (Lavov most), a stone bridge, was built between 1889 and 1891 in the place of an older bridge called Sharen Most ("Motley Bridge"). It was planned by Czech architect Václav Prošek, his brother Jozef and his cousins Bohdan and Jiří, who also designed and built the similar, eagle-themed "Eagles' Bridge" in 1891. All metal elements of the bridge were produced by the Austrian company of Rudolph Philipp Waagner. Electric lights were installed in the early 1900s. Not specified Not specified 165 215 151 203 Bulgaria Sofia Neubert "Sofia v nashite spomeni" (1978). In: Balgarsko Foto, Vol. 4: 28.