The Sea Garden (

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: Морска градина, ''Morska gradina'') is the

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n port city of

Burgas Burgas ( bg, Бургас, ), sometimes transliterated as ''Bourgas'', is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the fourth-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a popu ...

' largest and best known public

park A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...

. It is located along the city's coast on the

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and it is an important tourist attraction and a national monument of

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on the

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. Near the Sea Garden is located one of the most popular district of Burgas - district of Lazur. The area of the park is around 800 decares. The park is planted with trees and shrubs. In those areas there are many sculptures sparsed around. The most important monument probably is the monument of

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

History

The first trees in the park were planted by the soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment (created in 1889). In 1910 the architect Georgi Duhtev (* August 7, 1885; † November 9, 1955) was hired by the Municipality of Burgas to start the construction of the Sea Garden. The young architect became the governor of the

Borisova Gradina Borisova gradina or Knyaz-Borisova gradina ( bg, Борисова градина or Княз-Борисова градина, translated as Boris' Garden or Knyaz Boris' Garden) is the oldest and best known park in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. I ...

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

. He turned the swamp between the city and the sea into one of the most beautiful parks in

. Thanks to his passion for exotic plants, today there are hundreds of plants in the Garden from all continents, and the old part of the Sea Garden, or quarter, is a monument to the art of landscape design and gardening. In 1936 the first bay is opened and two years later in 1938 the Marine Casino is built. In 1975 a new bay is built with steel-reinforced concrete structure.

Landmarks

* Summer Theatre * Summer Scene "Snail" * the Pantheon * the Marine Casino * the Bay of Burgas * the house of the creator * Exhibition of flowers "Flora" * Alley and monument "A. Pushkin"

Festivals

* The Sand Sculpture Festival *

Spirit of Burgas Spirit of Burgas was a summer music festival in the city of Burgas, on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. The first edition of the festival took place on 15–17 August 2008 and since then has significantly grown in popularity, becoming one of the m ...

* Sea Garden Festival (since 2014) * BlueZZ fest * Burgas and the Sea (Бургас и морето, ''Burgas i moreto'')

External links

The Sea Garden in Burgas
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