Chernomorets ( bg, Черноморец ) is a town on the

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coast of southeastern

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. Administratively part of Sozopol Municipality,

Burgas Province Burgas Province ( bg, Област Бургас, translit=Oblast Burgas, formerly the Burgas okrug) is a province in southeastern Bulgaria, including the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The province is named after its administrative and ind ...

, Chernomorets is a popular

seaside resort A seaside resort is a town, village, or hotel that serves as a vacation resort and is located on a coast. Sometimes the concept includes an aspect of official accreditation based on the satisfaction of certain requirements, such as in the Germ ...

. Chernomorets lies some southeast of the provincial capital

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 pop ...

, at the south coast of

Burgas Bay Gulf of Burgas or Burgas Bay ( bg, Бургаски залив, ''Burgaski zaliv'') between the coastline and the straight line joining Cape Emine and Cape Maslen nos is the largest bay of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and one of the largest in th ...

, the

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's largest bay. Until 1951, it was known as Sveti Nikola (Свети Никола, " Saint Nicholas"). Chernomorets means "Black Sea man". Previously a village, it received

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on 2 December 2009 on the grounds that it met the demographic and infrastructure requirements due to its resort status. The town has a primary school, a kindergarten and a cultural centre (''

chitalishte A ''chitalishte'' (, . Derives from the verb "чета" - "to read" or "читател" - "reader") is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building that fulfills several functions at once, such as a community centre, library, and a theat ...

''). Chernomorets lies at the low northern slopes of the Strandzha mountain, between Cape Emine to the north and the Arkutino marshland to the south. To the east is

St. Ivan Island St. Ivan Island ( bg, остров св. Иван, ''ostrov Sveti Ivan'') is the largest Bulgarian island in the Black Sea, with an area of . It lies off the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast near Sozopol, a town with rich history and a popular tourist pl ...

, with

Sozopol Sozopol ( bg, Созопол , el, Σωζόπολη, translit=Sozopoli) is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for th ...

to the southeast of the town along the seaside road. Chernomorets has an

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church dedicated to the town patron Saint Nicholas. A landscaped garden called the " Garden of Eden" lies just in front of it.

Gallery

File:Hramsvetinikola.jpg, The Saint Nicholas Church File:Burgas-Ethnographic-museum-male-costume-Chernomorets.jpg, A traditional men's costume from the village File:Chernomorets-1.jpg, Overview of the town File:Chernomorets-2.jpg, Overview of the town

References

* Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Burgas Province Seaside resorts in Bulgaria Populated coastal places in Bulgaria {{Burgas-geo-stub