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Boyana Church
Boyana Church is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church in the Boyana quarter of Sofia, built in stages from the tenth to the nineteenth centuries. Its second layer of frescoes, painted in 1259 for the sebastokrator Kaloyan and his wife Desislava, is famous for its lifelike portraits and is among the finest works of East European medieval art. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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