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About Bourgas

The Black Sea Coast

The Black Sea coast and an ideal location for European Sea Resort Holidays, Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast with wide sandy beaches, and long and warm summers , if that’s your requirement for a perfect holiday then all of this can be found in the city of Burgas (Bourgas). Should you be looking for more from your ideal holiday destination you will find much more in this city named Burgas (Bourgas). The city of Burgas (Bourgas) has much more to offer than sunbathing, not just a popular and much-desired beach resort holiday destination, Burgas (Bourgas) is a city rich in history, a romantic city, a destination of music, and wonderfully unique flora and fauna. For that holiday atmosphere of cafes, clubs and discos then it has to be Burgas (Bourgas) as nowhere else in Bulgaria can you find a city or town with more.

Location and climate of Burgas (Bourgas)

Positioned on the shores of the Black Sea is the city of Burgas (Bourgas).

Burgas (Bourgas) has an average altitude of 17m. Travel just north or south of the city and you will find saline water lakes and bird sanctuaries. Burgas is a route of birds migrating southwards.

Burgas (Bourgas) Today

21st century Burgas is a municipal and regional centre, the fourth biggest settlement of Bulgaria, Burgas (Bourgas) has a population of 226,000 inhabitants. Burgas (Bourgas) has more than 15,000 companies registered on its territory and also has the lowest rate of unemployment.

Scope of activity in industrial companies is rather wide:

Cables and wires

Fish canning

Vegetable oils

Confectionary

Tailoring plus many other business types.

Burgas airport has the best climatic conditions on the Balkan Peninsular and is the only Bulgarian Airport suitable for supersonic planes

Burgas Duty Free Zone begun operating back in 1989.

For many years Burgas (Bourgas) has been known as the tourist centre of the south Black Sea coast. As a tourist destination it is also a starting point for tourism to other Black Sea resorts, such as Sunny Beach, Elenite, Dyuni, Nesebar and Sozopol. Ancient towns of historical significance have preserved traces from old Greek settlements in particular Nesebar, with many old churches that date back to the beginning of the first millennium.

However, it is not only the sea that attracts visitors from the country and abroad. All these resorts including Burgas (Bourgas) offer the widest range of facilities and provide all kinds of amusement and entertainment, restaurants and pubs, variety of cuisines, discos, cafes, water slides, pools, aqua parks and much more, both locals and tourists come to enjoy and soak up the atmosphere of this area of Bulgaria. Visit the Burgas Sea Garden, lush greenery stretching for several kilometers along the Black Sea shore, join the local people who come to enjoy a stroll and to relax at weekends or after a hard day’s work.

Even today, where the Black Sea washes the foot of the Strandzha Mountain, you can find traces of old heathen traditions present in folk rites and rituals these have been preserved even today, and are still practiced as a tourist attraction or a cherished tradition.

Festivals and the Arts

Burgas “the city of festivals” every summer, on the stage of the summer theatre in the Sea Garden there is a festival called “Burgas and the Sea” for many years this festival has been renowned as the festival popularizing many songs which has been the threshold for the career of many talented performers and for many years been the stage for International Folklore festival presenting folk dances and songs of people from all over the world. The beer fest, the Festival of the Bulgarian rock music, and the annual theatre festival “On the Shore”, also the traditional classical music festival, are all organized and held in Burgas.

Here in Burgas there are more than ten art galleries. The City Art Gallery, here exhibits being are arranged in the former Jewish Synagogue. It has been proclaimed as a work of art and nowadays holds works of most major Bulgarian painters and sculptors. Numerous other galleries some of which are state-owned and some private exhibiting work of young, contemporary authors, and also sell their paintings. There is a cinema and a theatre which stage performances of the local theatre company and of visiting companies.

Summer in Burgas (Bourgas)

In this area summertime is warm, but never gets too hot which is due to a constantly blowing breeze. During the summer you should expect average temperatures of 26 degrees celsius or 78 fahrenheit.

Winter in Burgas (Bourgas)

Winter here is mild and temperatures rarely drop below zero, not a place for ski holidays as there is almost no snow.

Autumn in Burgas (Bourgas)

This is an area of Bulgaria where warm air given by the sea makes autumn longer and warmer than anywhere else Bulgaria

Spring in Burgas (Bourgas)

After reading the above you must be expecting a warm idyllic spring, not so, as spring is relatively cold.

Burgas (Bourgas) History

Settlers have been attracted to Burgas (Bourgas ) for tens of centuries. With the earliest human settlements dating back to the Bronze and Iron Age. Burgas (Bourgas) is an area rich in archeological artifacts that are connected to Thracian civilization.

Burgas or Bourgos

The name “Burgas” is associated with the Latin word “bourgos”, which means “tower”.

Legends

There is a legend that there was a Roman passenger station in the area of present day Burgas Port. During 18th century AD had the biggest harbour in the area south of the Balkans, which declined during the last years of the ottoman rule, then in the 20^th century became one of the most rapidly developing settlements in the country.

Museums Burgas Archaeological Museum

The history and the variety of archaeological artefacts found on the territory of present-day Burgas Municipality

City History Museum

The history of the region, from the Bulgarian Renaissance up until the present day

Ethnographic Museum

See and learn a about the everyday life, culture and traditions of the local community.

Natural Science Museum

Here different species of animals can be seen.