Mount Vitosha

It’s visible from practically everywhere in the city so you can use it to orientate yourself -  even in built up areas, glimpsing the angle of the peak between buildings will tell you approximately where you are. Like the sea, it’s also a constant reminder of nature. Approaching weather is revealed in the gathering clouds that obscure clefts and ridges and the colours on its slopes proudly display the seasons: green in the summer turning to rusty orange in the autumn. In the winter, tracks of white spread downwards, gradually swallowing the forests and clinging to the peak until June.