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Tzarevo, Bulgaria
Tzarevo municipality is situated in the south-east part of Bulgaria and it is located at the distance of 60 km south of Bourgas. The combination of sea, mountain and rivers with exotic plants offers great opportunities for tourism – eco, yacht, photo and hobby tourism, hunting. In the town of Tzarevo there is the first south harbour in Bulgaria. Since 1995 the port is international.In the XII th century the town was mentioned for the first time with the name of Idrisi. The Turkish documents regulate the status of the port “Vasilikos” in XV – XVI th century. In the middle of XIX th century there was opened a Greek school. There is an interesting legend about the foundation of the town. According to it, the first shelters came from the demolished Bulgarian village of Bosilkovo, in the eastern part of Stara planina. Its inhabitants settled on the Black sea coast and found a new settlement. Later they become under Greek rule. In 1967 it was proclaimed for Sea resort with national importance. Tzarevo offers three beaches and two camping places: “Balgarka” and “Nestinara”. Tourism On the territory of Tzarevo municipality is located one of the seventh moisture zones in the country, which is with continental importance – ‘Ropotamo – Veleka’. Here is the oldest Nature Reserve in Bulgaria – ‘Silkosia’. It was pronounced in 1933. The unique nature of Strandja is preserved with a several protected territories – eight reserves and a lot of natural landmarks (“Popovi skali”, the camping place “Oasis”, “Silistar”, ‘Mouth of Veleka’ river etc.). Through this municipality flows the biggest river in Strandja – Veleka, its length is 147 km. Archaeological monuments The church “St. Trinity” in Vasilkovo residential area was built in 1810. It was completed in 1831, from 1895 till nowadays the church has not change its architectural style. There are some icons, which testify for the existing of an older church. These icons were preserved in the last decades of XVIII th century. The icons were made from Ioan Zograf (from 1797 to 1805), Dimitar Zograf ( from 1835), Todor Zograf ( from 1850). Nowadays the name of church is “The Assumption”. |
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