European Union Metro Station

European Union Metro Station (Bulgarian: Метростанция „Европейски съюз“ – Evropejski Săyuz) is a station on the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria. It opened on 31 August 2012. Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money. Barroso expressed his delight that the metro station was named after the European Union.[1][2]

European Union
Coordinates	42°40′46.43″N 23°19′17.56″E
Owned by	Sofia Municipality
Platforms	island
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	sub-surface
Platform levels	2
Other information
Station code	2979; 2980
History
Opened	31 August 2012 (2012-08-31)
Previous names	St. Naum; Hemus
Services
Preceding station   Sofia Metro   Following station James Bourchier toward Vitosha Line 2 NDK toward Sofia Airport
Location

Line 2
All stations are wheelchair accessible
Moderno predgradie (proposed) Obelya Lomsko shose Slivnitsa Beli Dunav Lyulin Nadezhda Zapaden Park Han Kubrat Vardar Knyaginya Maria Luiza Konstantin Velichkov Central Railway Opalchenska Lavov most ↖Serdika↘ ↙Serdika II↗ NDK SU St. Kliment Ohridski European Union Vasil Levski Stadium James Bourchier Joliot-Curie Vitosha G.M.Dimitrov Musagenitsa Mladost 1 Line 1 Aleksandar Malinov Mladost 3 Akademik Aleksandar Teodorov - Balan Inter Expo Center – Tsarigradsko shose Business Park Sofia Druzhba Iskarsko shose Sofiyska Sveta gora Sofia Airport
Detailed track map line end -8' Vitosha   ↑Opened 2016↑ -6' James Bourchier -4' European Union built 1981 opened 2012 Perlovska -2' NDK built 1981 opened 2012 Serdika RED line M1 to Slivnitsa/Business Park Sofia 0' Serdika II Vladayska 2' Lavov most 3' Central Railway Station 5' Knyaginya Maria Luiza BDŽ National Rail to Pernik-Kulata/Kyustendil BDŽ National Rail to Dragoman/Radomir/Bankya 00' Future extension   00' Ilyantsi branch Lev Tolstoy Svoboda Iliyansko shose Ilyantsi Ilyanysi branch end 7' Han Kubrat Suhodolska 9' Nadezhda 11' Beli Dunav 13' Lomsko shose ↑Opened 2012↑   15' Obelya Kakach Moderno predgradie (proposed) National Rail to Dragoman/Radomir/Bankya   ↑Opened 2003↑ RED line to Depot   ↓Opened 1998↓ -13' Slivnitsa -11' Lyulin -8' Zapaden Park Suhodolska National Rail to Pernik-Kulata/Kyustendil -6' Vardar -4' Konstantin Velichkov   ↓Opened 1999↓ Vladayska -2' Opalchenska   ↓Opened 2000↓ 0' Serdika Serdika II BLUE line M2 to Obelya/Vitosha   ↓Opened 2009↓ 3' Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Perlovska 5' Vasil Levski Stadium 8' Joliot-Curie WTC Novachitsa 10' G.M.Dimitrov 12' Musagenitsa Darvenishka 14' Mladost 1 00' to Business Park   00'   ↓Opened 2015↓   16' Aleksandar Malinov 18' Akademik Aleksandar Teodorov - Balan Banishka 20' Business Park Sofia Mladost branch end 00'   ↓Opened 2012↓   16' Mladost 3 18' Inter Expo Center – Tsarigradsko shose   ↓Opened 2015↓ 20' Druzhba 23' Iskarsko shose National Rail to Ihtiman/Karlovo 25' Sofiyska Sveta gora 27' Sofia Airport Terminal 2 Airport branch end

History

As the Sofia underground network was planned in the late 1970s, the station, along with the NDK Metro Station, was originally built in the early 1980s, along with the building of the National Palace of Culture.[3] The original project name of the station was "Hemus" (the name of the large hotel next to the station); during the building of Line 2 of the Sofia Metro, it was planned to be called "Sveti Naum" (as it is located at the intersection of the Cherni Vrah and Sv. Naum boulevards). Shortly before the opening of the station, the city council (dominated by the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party) controversially voted to change the name to "European Union".[4] As the timing was so close to the opening of Line 2, many of the maps in the trains still retained the name "St. Naum" even after station was opened to the public.[5]

Interchange with other public transport

• City Bus service: 94, 102
• Trolleybus service: 7

Location

The European Union Metro Station is situated nearby the Earth and Man National Museum and City Center Sofia.

Gallery

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References

1. Sofia Expands Its Metro, Barroso Pleased, Novinite.com, 31 Aug 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.
2. Barroso: I'm glad you named a metro station adter the EU Sega.bg (in Bulgarian), 1 Sep 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.
3. "EU" Metro Station - Todor Zhivkov made the first dig before the EU even existed, btv, (in Bulgarian), 30 Aug 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.
4. Next Station: European Union, Dnes.bg (in Bulgarian), 14 Jun 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.
5. Where is "EU" Station? Archived 2013-01-15 at Archive.today, BNT (in Bulgarian), 2 Sep 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.

External links

Media related to European Union Metro Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Sofia Metropolitan
• More info in Bulgarian
• SofiaMetro@UrbanRail
• Sofia Urban Mobility Center
• Sofia Metro station projects
• Sofia Metropolitan