Nessebar
Excellent choice! Everything is available here! Magnificent resort offering lot of amusements and excellent night life.There are ancient buildings and historical monuments as well as quiet restaurants and fashionable cafes and discos. Internet access is quite well developed here. Widely available in the internet cafes.
The Nessebar town is situated over small peninsula and its population is about 10,000 people. It lies 37km northeast of Bourgas and only 2 km far from beauty resort Sunny Beach.. Its beach is one of the beauties along the Black Sea coast. It is consist of large sandy strip of land, covered with clean golden sand. Nessebar town is consist of two parts – old and new.
New town is famous with many nice hotels and private rooms. The old part of the town is fantastic with original romantic atmosphere, narrow cobblestone lanes, tiny squares, two-storeyed period houses with stone-built ground levels and wooden upper floors jutting above the streets and external staircases, gift shops, pubs, tavern and lovely flower gardens.
Nessebar emerged as a fortified Thracian settlement; afterwards it was a Greek polis, then a Roman colony.
In the early Middle Ages the town rebuilt its fortress walls and stayed part of the Byzantine Empire until 812 when the protobulgarian Khan Krum conquered it. During the reign of Ivan Alexander the town went thorough a cultural and economic boom, and occupied substantial territories beyond the stretch of the peninsula. In 1366 the knights of Amadeus of Savoy conquered the town, and then sold it to Byzantium for 15,000 golden ducats. In 1453, shortly after Constantinople fell under Turkish domination the town was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and went through a period of decay. The Liberation found Nessabar as a small fishermen's settlement, with well-developed viticulture on the hills above the town.
Nessebar is one of the most popular resorts for its ancient spirit and well-preserved remains. There are more than 41 churches. One of the oldest sanctuaries is the Basilica built on the coast around the beginning of 5th century. The Old Bishop's Residence located in the centre of the town is the most impressive church in Nessebar. Its three naves were decorated with a colonnade and arches. St. Ivan the Baptist Church was built much later, in the 11th century, and is a typical cross-domed church with three naves, and four columns supporting the dome. One can see there fragments of frescoes dating back to the 13th century. The St. Stefan Church or the so-called New Bishop's Residence, situated in the vicinity of the harbour, was built in the 10th century. Its decoration is so picturesque that it marked the beginning of a typical local style, seen in the construction of churches of later times. The facade of the church is ornamented with ceramic figures of different colours and tiles. Besides well-preserved churches, one can see the remains of fortress walls, authentic medieval, Roman and Greek street pavements, fortifications of different epochs, administrative and other buildings. Some of the typical houses of Nessebar built in a unique style of the 16th-19th century are real architectural monuments. The old quarters of Nessebar show remarkable taste and mastership in the construction of houses, stone walls, and streets. The Turkish bath and the windmill at the beginning of the causeway are of particular interest.
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