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27/02/2026

Lately our students have been learning and playing a lot of chess (and seventh grader Heidi has been taking some great photos!)

24/02/2026

The learning vibes are strong in this one…

05/02/2026

Check out the latest edition of Sanctified Nonsense, the student newsletter of SCA!

The return from Christmas vacation was met with a certain level of grumbling, but it’s been a few weeks and SCA has settled back into a normal routine (or at least a less odd one). This newsletter we present to you some of the oddities of Bulgaria and its people, as well as a bevy of harsh complai...

01/02/2026

This is today in Sofia - what’s it like where you live?

27/01/2026

The fun thing about learning geography is, to do it correctly you have to try the foods, right?

24/01/2026

Our SCA Upper School students recently read 19th Century books that had some connection to geography, and then did projects to represent their book. Can you name the books they read?

22/01/2026

Sofia is filled with beauty!

19/01/2026

Roman Emperor Constantine the Great famously said, “Serdika is my Rome.” The ruins of ancient Serdika still lie beneath modern Sofia, reminding us of the city’s deep historical roots.�

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdica

19/01/2026

Did you know Sofia is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe? People have lived here for thousands of years—from ancient Thracians to Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans, and modern Bulgarians. And we at SCA get to call it home (or home away from home)!

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Sofia[a] is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continenta...