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Sozopol is situated on a small rocky peninsula in the southernmost part of Bourgas Bay. A one hundred metre strip of land connects it to the mainland, and it lies 31km south of the city and international airport.It is a moderately small town with a population of 7,000 people.
It has good transport links with a regular bus service connecting it to Bourgas as well as taxis and mini buses.
Sozopol was a small fishing town when Bulgaria was liberated from the Turks, but it has gradually beome the biggest fishing centre on the Black Sea Coast. It is a popular tourist resort, famous for its beautiful coastline with Tsar's Beach to the north, Raiski Zaliv (Paradise Bay) set amongst the rocks of the south, and the Kavatsite Beach and camping area even further south. The Harmanite Beach is south of the new town, and this is where an ancient necropolis was discovered in 1993 and where excavations are still going on.
Some of the many attractions to visit during your stay at Sozopol include two ancient Renaissance churches:St Zosim and The Holy Virgin. The seventeenth century house of Dimitur Laskaridis, (who used to be a fish trader, and which has now become an art gallery), Ana Trendafilova, Kourtidis, Una Psarianova (now the Stenata Restaurant), Grandmother Koukoulissa Hadzhinikolova (now the offices of Sturshel Newspapers), Metropoliev (a medical centre at present)and Kreanoolu are just a few of the 45 architectural monuments in the town.
Many tourists spent their holidays in one of the many camp sites located in Sozopol: Kavatsite, Smokinya, Vesselie, Zlatna Ribka and Gradina all offer bungalows of varying categories, caravan sites and tents.
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