Seaside Park
Description:
The seaside park in the port city of Varna is the largest, oldest and most famous public park in Bulgaria, and is also considered the largest landscape park in the Balkans. Located along the Black Sea coast, it is an important tourist center and a national monument of landscape architecture. Here grow valuable species of trees and flower beds of amazing beauty.
In the park is one of the most famous buildings of Varna - Aquarium, built in 1906-1911. There are also fountains installed in 1912-1913, monuments, a seaside casino in 1930, an alley of cosmonauts, the Pantheon of those killed in the fight against fascism, a natural history museum, an open-air theater, an observatory, a planetarium, a zoo, a dolphinarium and a children's amusement park. In 1939, a modern central entrance with a wide platform and high columns was made here, and in front of the entrance later a figure of a swan in the shape of a sundial was installed.
There are also wonderful fish restaurants in the park.