Guidebook for Varna
Shopping
Arena Mall Varna
186 бул. „Владислав Варненчик“Grand Mall
2 ul. "Akademik Andrei Saharov"Parks & Nature
The Seaside Garden is the Bulgarian port city of Varna's largest, oldest and best known public park, also said to be the largest landscaped park in the Balkans. Located along the city's coast on the Black Sea, it is an important tourist attraction and a national monument of landscape architecture.
Nowadays the Sea Garden form an imposing park where you can visit the Natural Science Museum, the Naval Museum, the Copernicus Astronomy Complex planetarium, the first in the country, the zoo and the Terrarium. Here one can find the only Dolphinarium and Aquarium in the country.
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Sea Garden Varna
The Seaside Garden is the Bulgarian port city of Varna's largest, oldest and best known public park, also said to be the largest landscaped park in the Balkans. Located along the city's coast on the Black Sea, it is an important tourist attraction and a national monument of landscape architecture.
Nowadays the Sea Garden form an imposing park where you can visit the Natural Science Museum, the Naval Museum, the Copernicus Astronomy Complex planetarium, the first in the country, the zoo and the Terrarium. Here one can find the only Dolphinarium and Aquarium in the country.
Arts & Culture
Exhibits at this vast museum, the best of its kind in Bulgaria, include 6000-year-old bangles, necklaces and earrings said to be the oldest worked gold found in the world. You'll also find Roman surgical implements, Hellenistic tombstones and touching oddments including a marble plaque listing, in Greek, the names of the city’s school graduates for AD 221. All of the exhibits are helpfully signposted in English, with excellent explanatory text. There's a large collection of icons on the second floor.
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Museu Arqueológico de Varna
41 бул. „Княгиня Мария Луиза“Exhibits at this vast museum, the best of its kind in Bulgaria, include 6000-year-old bangles, necklaces and earrings said to be the oldest worked gold found in the world. You'll also find Roman surgical implements, Hellenistic tombstones and touching oddments including a marble plaque listing, in Greek, the names of the city’s school graduates for AD 221. All of the exhibits are helpfully signposted in English, with excellent explanatory text. There's a large collection of icons on the second floor.
The first steps of the Maritime Museum were established as early as 1883 when the collection of old sea articles began in Ruse by the officers in the Danube fleet. In its expositions the museum presents maritime Bulgaria in its wholeness. The most important moments and processes of the naval activities of the Bulgarians, the construction of the maritime fleet, the participation of our seamen in the war between Serbia and Bulgaria (1885), the Balkan War, the First World War and the Second World War is presented on a relatively small area of about 400 square meters.
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Museu Naval
2 bul. "Primorski"The first steps of the Maritime Museum were established as early as 1883 when the collection of old sea articles began in Ruse by the officers in the Danube fleet. In its expositions the museum presents maritime Bulgaria in its wholeness. The most important moments and processes of the naval activities of the Bulgarians, the construction of the maritime fleet, the participation of our seamen in the war between Serbia and Bulgaria (1885), the Balkan War, the First World War and the Second World War is presented on a relatively small area of about 400 square meters.
For a blast from the not too distant past, Varna’s Retro Museum sheds light on the city during socialist times.
The museum is set in the Grand Mall and has curated pretty much every aspect of daily living from the 20th century that you could care to think of.
There are Bulgarian cigarettes, kitchen utensils, vacuum cleaners and cosmetics. These are next to wax figures of the most prominent public figures, like the singer Emil Dimitrov, and of course Todor Zhivkov, the head of state throughout this time.
The marquee attraction here though is the collection of 50 cars, with boxy Skodas, Trabants and Volgas, plus a Chaika limo that transported Politburo members.
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Museu Retro
2 ul. "Akademik Andrei Saharov"For a blast from the not too distant past, Varna’s Retro Museum sheds light on the city during socialist times.
The museum is set in the Grand Mall and has curated pretty much every aspect of daily living from the 20th century that you could care to think of.
There are Bulgarian cigarettes, kitchen utensils, vacuum cleaners and cosmetics. These are next to wax figures of the most prominent public figures, like the singer Emil Dimitrov, and of course Todor Zhivkov, the head of state throughout this time.
The marquee attraction here though is the collection of 50 cars, with boxy Skodas, Trabants and Volgas, plus a Chaika limo that transported Politburo members.
Drinks & Nightlife
Cubo is probably the best known beach bar in Varna. It is loved and mostly visited by the alternative and bohemian people but in the recent years it became so popular that you can already find there every kind of person. Very chill spot on the beach. A great beach bar, where you can get a drink, relax and enjoy the sea.
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Cubo
Cubo is probably the best known beach bar in Varna. It is loved and mostly visited by the alternative and bohemian people but in the recent years it became so popular that you can already find there every kind of person. Very chill spot on the beach. A great beach bar, where you can get a drink, relax and enjoy the sea.
Makalali Beach Bar
ulitsa "Kapitan Georgi Georgiev"Zahir
ulitsa "Kapitan Georgi Georgiev"Mentol
Sightseeing
Natural phenomenon “Stone Forest” is better known with its Bulgarian name “Pobiti kamani” which could be translated as “stones beaten into the ground”. Seven large and several separate small groups are located on the north and south from the Beloslav Lake. These are numerous limestone pillars as high as 10 m, hollow or solid cylinders, truncated cones and single rocks and cliffs.
The most famous and impressive is the group named “Center - South”. It is located 18 km west of Varna and numbered about 300 large and small columns, up to 6 m high, rising mainly south of the old road to the town of Devnya.
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A Floresta de Pedra
2 Natural phenomenon “Stone Forest” is better known with its Bulgarian name “Pobiti kamani” which could be translated as “stones beaten into the ground”. Seven large and several separate small groups are located on the north and south from the Beloslav Lake. These are numerous limestone pillars as high as 10 m, hollow or solid cylinders, truncated cones and single rocks and cliffs.
The most famous and impressive is the group named “Center - South”. It is located 18 km west of Varna and numbered about 300 large and small columns, up to 6 m high, rising mainly south of the old road to the town of Devnya.
Just beyond Varna’s northeastern suburbs is an astounding Orthodox cave monastery complex that is part of a protected natural area just in from the coast.
These caves are man-made and have been purposely carved from the face of a 25-metre-high karst cliff. It’s one for the sure-footed, as some of the terrain can be tough! Inside the monastery you can see boasting mosaics that have survived very well, and medieval frescoes that have been partly lost.
From there you can walk the short trail through the forest to get to two catacombs.
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Aladzha Monastery
61 АбайJust beyond Varna’s northeastern suburbs is an astounding Orthodox cave monastery complex that is part of a protected natural area just in from the coast.
These caves are man-made and have been purposely carved from the face of a 25-metre-high karst cliff. It’s one for the sure-footed, as some of the terrain can be tough! Inside the monastery you can see boasting mosaics that have survived very well, and medieval frescoes that have been partly lost.
From there you can walk the short trail through the forest to get to two catacombs.
Food Scene
The Sea Terrace
Happy Bar & Grill
22 bul. "Slivnitsa"GODZILA Beach
Entertainment & Activities
Zoológico de Varna
terrarium Varna
185 bulevard "Slivnitsa"Varna Aquarium