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A town and seaside resort situated terrace-like on a small bay on the Black
Sea some 31 km North of Varna, 37 km south-east of Dobrich and 500 km East
from Sofia. Third in significance Bulgarian port after Varna and Bourgas,
used for medium-size passenger and trade vessels.
Balchik sparng to life towards the end of the 6th C. B.C. as the ancient
Greek colony Crunoi (later Dionysopolis) in place of a Chalcolithic (4th-3rd
millennium B.C.) and a Thracian (1st millennium B.C.) settlement.
The exceptional view of the town from the sea impressed the great Ovid who
exclaimed: "O white stone town, I salute thee for thy inimitable beauty!".
The Milesian colonists believed that the goddess of beauty, Aphrodite, was
born there out of the sea foam.
The spouting karst springs gave the town its first name Krunoi (meaning
spring or source in Old Greek). The next name was Dionysopolis. During the
Middle Ages the town was named after the local feudal lord, Balik later
on it was included in the territory of Bulgaria. In 13th - 14th centuries
it moved to Dzhina Bair, a natural fortification. It was ruled by the Boyar
Balik and so it was called Balchik. After the Crimean War (1853 - 1856)
the town flourished and grew into a large corn-trading centre.
After the Balkan War in 1913 it was included in the territories of Romania.
Struck by the natural beauty of the place Queen Maria built a palace and
a botanical garden, a chapel and a villa complex for the Romanian aristocrats.The
town turned into a luxurious resort at that time. After 1940 Balchik was
again included in Bulgarian territory.
Balchik has many historic and natural attractions, narrow beach strips,
hotels, camping grounds. Apart from the palace, the palace complex and the
botanical garden - the biggest and most diverse in the Balkans, the town
is attractive to tourists with its ancient atmosphere that has been preserved
for centuries.
It is interesting to walk along and observe the Tatar Quarter with the pebbled
streets and the houses made of stone and adobe.
The old palace - built in 1924-1931 by the request of the Romanian queen
Maria. The authors of the construction design are Italian architects.
Apart from the large restaurants in the palace, in the hotels and downtown,
there are a number of small private restaurantsoffering seafood, pizzas,
spaghetti and other kinds of European cuisine.
Apart from the main stream of the tourists visiting Bulgaria and by all
means not very known to the world, Balchik was preserved until today in
its own multicultural authenticity. In this small town and in the region
are living peacefully people whose ancestors are (in order of settling)
ancient Greeks, Bulgarians, Turks, Tatars, Romanians.
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