Town in Burgas, Bulgaria
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Tsarevo (Bulgarian: Царево) is a small town and resort on the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. It's one of Bulgaria's four official ports of entry, and the largest town in the southernmost part of the coast.
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Modern building referencing traditional architecture. Exhibits include the Sinemorets Thracian gold and silver treasure, artefacts recovered from the sea floor, and the usual ethnographic stuff. One of the (more than) 100 National Tourist Sites of Bulgaria (No. 86).
Morska gradina
The town park, at the tip of Cape Limnos; a street leads directly north-east from the main square to the entrance of the park.
On the main alley of the park, holding aloft some kind of an astronomical model.
Outdoor display of what's left of the largest wooden ship built in Bulgaria, in Tsarevo's shipyard, using timber from Strandzha's forests; launched in 1947, sank in 1993 by Varna, remnants recovered 2005. The name means "woodman, forest dweller".
The floor is a mosaic of a compass rose. Good view of the sea, and connection to the beach alley.
Simple memorial to the crew of Soviet submarine S-34 (Russian: С-34) that sank in 1941, presumably after hitting a mine; two bodies washed up on the shore by Tsarevo.
On top of a 5.5 m bronze statue of a woman rather than an utilitarian tower. Claimed to be based on the caryatids of the Sveshtari Tomb, the statue was erected in 2014 after the original was destroyed by a storm two years earlier. Sculptor Pavel Koychev.
Central Square, Tsentralen ploshtad
Pedestrianised, there's a fountain in the shape of a sailboat. Some of the Communism-era wall art on the surrounding buildings has been preserved, but the statue that can be seen in some older promotional materials was demolished during the square's renovation in 2018.
Uspenie Bogorodichno
Functioning Orthodox church. One of Tsarevo's landmarks. Built in the 1810s, and one of the few buildings that survived the 1880s fire. Pseudo-basilica type (no dome). Elevation gives it good views of the sea, there's a small playground outside.
Naturalistic statue of a school of fish or a bait ball.
Automated navigation light on a rock in the sea, about 500 m from the shore. Best visible from the Vasiliko Quarter, can be reached by a boat.
Водолазен център "Арапя"
The local SCUBA diving club. Website also in English and Russian.
Improved beach by Cape Arapya, with hotels, bungalows, and camping sites.
Narrow beach at the base of the Cape Limnos peninsula, on the northern side.
Improved beach surrounded by hotels, on the eastern side of the Vasiliko Quarter, across the mouth of a stream, about 2 km south-east of the centre. ("Nestinarka" means "female fire dancer", after the Strandzha tradition of dancing on hot embers.)
By car
From the north (Burgas and the rest of Bulgaria): Road 99 branches off Road 9 south of Burgas and follows the coast east and south, passing through Sozopol and Primorsko (and a number of smaller…
By boat
Tsarevo is one of Bulgaria's four official ports of entry on the Black Sea (the others are Burgas, Varna, and Balchik).
It's a small town, so you can get around on foot, though getting to the outlying beaches would not be very convenient. Unless you book a place right next to them, but then getting to the centre would not be convenient.
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