Burgas park on the promenade. Seaside park in Burgas. History of the park
Seaside Park in Burgas (Burgas, Bulgaria): detailed description, address and photo. Opportunities for sports and recreation, infrastructure, cafes and restaurants in the park. Reviews of tourists.
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The central city park of Burgas, as its name implies, is stretched along the seashore. This is a favorite vacation spot for citizens. The length of the green zone is almost 7 km. The park has a well-groomed area with flower beds, flower beds and fountains, where summer outdoor events are regularly held. In particular, concerts and exhibitions are held at the summer open theater. In addition, the park has many cafes and food stalls, there is also a mini zoo for children.
The coastline with a boat pier gives a special appeal to the park. Excursion boats are usually sent from here, including to the island of St. Anastasia. And a little further, if you go towards Sarafovo, there is a surf school, where you can also rent equipment.
Especially for the festival, 2500 tons of special sand that is resistant to erosion are brought here.
On the territory of the Seaside Park of Burgas there is a separate park called Lake. In the summer, a sand sculpture festival takes place here for two months. Since 2008, the festival is held every year and lasts from July to August. This large-scale event attracts artists from around the world: the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia and the closest neighboring countries - Ukraine and Russia. Especially for the festival, which has an area of \u200b\u200bfive hectares, 2500 tons of special sand, resistant to erosion, are brought here. From it, artists create their masterpieces, some up to 8 m high.
In the Seaside Park, several ordinary, non-sand sculptures were also established, including the bronze figure of A.S. Pushkin by Petko Zadgorsky.
Each year, the author’s creations reflect a certain theme: carnival, circus, cinematic and dedicated to great personalities. On the last one could see sculptural portraits of Einstein, Louis Armstrong, Quentin Tarantino, Yuri Gagarin and a symbolic composition with three apples: Newtonian, the fruit of knowledge, plucked by Eve, and the apple of Apple. Sand sculptures are beautifully illuminated in the evening and guarded around the clock. In 2012, for two months, 120,000 people attended the festival.
Practical information
The park is located on the north-east coast of Burgas and stretches along the boulevard of Democracy.
Entrance: entrance ticket to the festival of sand sculptures for adults: 3,5 BGN, for children: 1,5 BGN.
Prices on the page are for November 2018.
Turned up the biggest and beautiful park that we saw on the territory of Bulgaria.
Once in its shady alleys, we decided to take a little walk along the promenade, examining well-groomed vegetationneat flower beds refreshing fountains and numerous monuments.
Seaside park stretched along the picturesque Black Sea coast on a fairly impressive distance - about 7 km. Wonderful views open from small siteslocated directly in it.
To get to the sea, You will need to go down the magnificent snow-white steps down, watching the calm waters and huge vessels in the distance.
History of the park
Seaside Park is a favorite vacation spot not only for tourists, but also for residents of the city of Burgas.
The majestic and diverse Seaside Park has its own unusual history.
Since 1889, in Burgas, the gardener Georgi Dukhtev began work on the landscaping project, who in several years creates his masterpiece. Masters attract exotic plants, so even now in the park you can find various types of flowers and trees from around the world.
Gradually, the territory grew slightly, new buildings appeared, and the old part of the park was considered a monument of park art. But locals and tourists still prefer to relax here, enjoy the beautiful views of the sea and the surrounding nature.
Things to do in Seaside Park
Whichever way you go into the park, you will see the exquisite diversity: there are not only convenient benches for relaxation, but also modern playgrounds, a specially designated place for walking small dogs, many monuments, cafes and even casinos. Many write that the park is a miniature zoo for babies, but we, unfortunately, did not notice it. Pleased care about vacationers: on the territory they saw special bins for cleaning for four-legged friends. Thanks to this, children are free to walk and play.
On the territory are modern bike paths, which freely ride not only residents and visitors, but even the local police. Here you can to rent a bicycle, which will cost you only 1 BGN / hour.
We saw in the Seaside Park of Burgas in addition to benches and hammocks. They like to "ride" children and teens relax.
There are summer open theaterwhere various festivals are held. In addition, they built another one - with a convenient sliding roof. Now the theater gathers a lot of spectators who come to listen to concerts of famous artists, to see an opera performance or a theatrical production.
At the end of April, an amazing, colorful international flower show. Every year she is visited by an impressive number of visitors.
If you want to stretch your arms, you can go to tennis courtslocated right in the park. True, it’s already for a fee.
What impresses all visitors to the Seaside Park without exception is many sculptures, flower beds and fountains. It’s even located here monument to Pushkin. In addition, the territory of the park is decorated with sculptures of various figures who have distinguished themselves in the history of the country. Meet and modern statueswhose idea is difficult to understand for ordinary people who are not versed in art.
If you are hungry, you can have a tasty meal in one of the nearby cafe. They are mainly located along the beach, prices, as you understand, are appropriate.
In the Seaside Park of Burgas there are a lot of different sculptures of famous Bulgarian figures.
It is not uncommon to see tourists in beachwear in the park, because there is an excellent sandy beach nearby.
If you go down from the Seaside Park down this stairs, you will get directly to the sea and a long sandy beach.
To further diversify the park, various flower beds were built in it.
Near such puzzles, children often spin. In the photo - one of the modern playgrounds in the territory of the Seaside Park of Burgas.
The modern building is a theater with a sliding roof, with a capacity of up to 2.5 thousand people.
Crypt Memorial Pantheon. Nowadays it is not a popular place, but before it eternal fire burned and a round-the-clock guard was on duty.
The seaside park of Burgas is equipped with modern high-quality bicycle paths. And you can buy a special bike rental ticket in such places.
Very beautiful and unusual building in the Seaside Park. It hosts the annual exhibition of plants.
In addition to local famous historical figures, in the park of Burgas there is a monument to the Russian classic - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.
Sand Sculpture Festival in Lake Park
Every year, starting in 2008, masters from around the world conquer tourists and residents of the city with their skill and ability. All thematic exhibitionsand the size of the sculptures is huge.
Skilfully and realistically executed all the figures from the sand at the festival in Burgas.
In 2015, we went to a festival called “On a safari with a camera”, where the works of 10 sculptors were presented, mostly foreign. Sand figures impressed us with their beauty and variety.
If at first we doubted whether to go to the festival ( entrance by the way paid, and is 3 BGN for an adult), then after a visit, they never regretted the time spent on it.
The sculptures are located in a small jesero Parkthat is located on the outskirts of Seaside Park.
If you decide to go and see the sand figures, we advise you to go in the morning or evening (Jezero Park is in the open and the hot sun at lunchtime simply melts the surrounding air).
Where is the park and how to get here?
The park is located in one of the most tourist parts of Burgas, literally 10 minutes from central square of the city.
You can go to the Seaside Park in different ways:
- if you are on the main street of the city - Aleksandrovskaya, it will be enough to turn a little to the left on Aleko Bogorodi Street;
- get on the final stop at the Burgas South Bus Station, then walk along Bulair Street for a bit;
- get on the stop "Park Jesero", which is located almost at the exit from the city towards Nessebar.
For your convenience, we attach a card, with the stops marked on it, the bus station and the park itself.
The sea park in the city of Burgas is a popular attraction. The park is 7 kilometers long along the sea coast. Superb seascapes open from the central park alley.
For rest and relaxation in the Marine Park there are benches that cover the shady lush tree crowns. In addition to a relaxed vacation, it will be interesting to take walks in the park - there are monuments to eminent historical figures not only in Bulgaria, but also in Europe. Including you can see the bust of Adam Mickiewicz, a Polish poet. Also, park alleys are decorated with unusual sculptural works by contemporary authors.
In addition, the park has an open area - the Summer Theater, with a total capacity of at least 2500 people. Cultural events are regularly held here: evenings of contemporary and folk music, festivals, theater performances. Not far from the Summer Theater there is a zoo and a small casino.
Special areas are equipped for children in the Marine Park, and cafes and restaurants for adults. In addition, you can exit the park directly to the center of Burgas.
Seaside Park of Burgas (Morska Gradina) - one of the largest and most beautiful parks in Bulgaria, is a monument of park art.
Seaside park stretches almost along the entire Black Sea coast, it seems to separate the city from the sea. The park begins near and stretches right up to Lake Atanasov. Green spaces cover an area of \u200b\u200babout 60 hectares, and the park is over 5 km long.
Work on the creation of the Seaside Park of Burgas began in 1910. In the place of wasteland, along the seashore, between the beach and, they began to lay alleys, plant trees and plants, including exotics brought from afar.
Now in the Morska Gradina park you can find:
- a beautiful central terrace "balustrade" with a wonderful view of the sea;
- well-groomed shady alleys decorated with flower beds, sculptures and fountains;
- the former "Sea Casino", now - the cultural center of the city;
- a summer theater and an open stage "Snail", where various concerts and cultural events are held;
- complex "Flora", where the international flower exhibition "" is held annually. There is also an outdoor pool in summer, various exhibitions are held here.
- restaurants, cafes, food pavilions;
- many shops, playgrounds, bike paths and even shady courts (this service is paid). There is also a lunapark with attractions;
- surf school (located on the beach).
- well-equipped beach (free admission, sunbeds and umbrellas for money).
Bicycle rental is available at the park. The cost of the service is 1 lev (half euro) for 1 hour. From here you can ride the new bike path to. The path goes along the coast of the sea.
Also at the very end of the park, already near Atanasovskoye Lake, in the territory of a separate park "Lake" takes place annually in the summer.
View from the park to the sea and the beach. The park is located as if near a small cliff.
Bourgas Seaside Park is located near the historical center of the city, in the neighborhood of. You can get to the park from more remote places of the city by buses No. 4,12A, 15.
In the city of Burgas is one of the most popular attractions in Bulgaria - Marine Park.
It stretches seven kilometers along the picturesque coast of the sea and its paths make it so pleasant to walk in the noon heat, hiding in the shade of the lush crowns of trees and relaxing on comfortable wooden benches or in beautiful arbors.
What is remarkable about Marine Park
In this picturesque place grows more than a hundred species of trees that have been brought here from all, even distant, continents. Ornamental trees and shrubs were delivered to the bourgeois park from Lebanon, France, Germany, Syria, Constantinople, Italy and other countries, today they have grown and their exotic flowers delight the eyes of visitors to the Marine Park, filling the air with a unique aroma. Particularly interesting in the park are tall palm trees planted in tubs. Talented florists and landscapers planted colorful, sometimes interesting, bizarre-shaped flower beds in the park that look especially attractive next to the fountains. Tourists especially note the wonderful sea air that they enjoy during a quiet walk along the alleys of the park, listening to the sound of waves, the rustling of succulent green leaves, children's voices heard in the distance and laughter.
The park has many interesting, talented embodied in bronze and stone, monuments to famous personalities and sculptures created by eminent masters of our time. There is a bust of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, who came to Burgas in 1850. Monuments to Bulgarian heroes, people who brought glory to beautiful Bulgaria and great people of other countries were erected in the park, for example, Russian tourists are pleased to see a monument to our great poet Alexander Pushkin here.
Fun in the park
The park is located slightly above a wide strip of sandy beaches and for tourists who prefer a beach holiday, there is a great opportunity to sunbathe on the hot sand and plunge into the sun-heated waters of the blue sea. The summer theater, with a capacity of 2500 spectators, is open in the park all year, and you can visit creative evenings dedicated to folk and modern music, watch theatrical performances or enjoy all kinds of open-air festivals. Each year, in the midst of the summer season, artists of the famous Golden Orpheus festival perform at the theater. Often, dance groups perform in the theater, and their performances are very popular among people who relax here.
For those tourists who love animals, a zoo is open near the summer theater, and for fans of gambling - a casino, which has become not only a place for games, but also a certain cultural, public place, for example, music evenings are held in the walls of the casino and chic events such as weddings. After a walk along the paths of the park, you can have a meal in small restaurants or cafes built on its territory.
For people who prefer active leisure time on vacation, in the Burgas Sea Park there are horse riding facilities, rental shops for cycling and bicycle paths specially designated for these purposes, as well as tennis courts. A variety of playgrounds have been built for children and attractions are working. The splendor of the Black Sea and the most beautiful nature can be admired from the observation platforms open in the park.
The Sea Park in Burgas is a great place to spend your holidays in an interesting and eventful way during your stay in the city. It is open at any time of the year and regardless of the season everyone will find something to their liking in the Marine Park.
