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Tsarska Bistritsa is a royal residence in southwestern Bulgaria, high in the Rila Mountains, just above the resort of Borovets and near the banks of the Bistritsa River. Built between 1898 and 1914, it served as the hunting lodge of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his son Boris III.

The extensive lot was bought by Tsar Ferdinand I with his private fortune in 1898 and is situated just outside Sofia. There is a large park and two buildings, the first one built in 1904 as a two-story hunting lodge commissioned to Georgi Fingov, and the second constructed mainly between 1909 and 1914 as a palace . The earliest building...