Obzor
At a point roughly midway between Bourgas and Varna, the E-87 highway emerges from the hilly wooded terrain into a brief open coastal stretch around Obzor. The Obzor resort is located at the boundary between Varna and Burgas districts. It’s 60km distant to the south of Varna, 65km distant to Burgas, and 35km to Nessebar at which municipal system belongs.
At practice there are two available airports close to Obzor – the airports of Varna and Burgas. Despite the town's convenient location and its ten-kilometer long sandy beach (the longest at the Bulgarian coast) with golden–coloured fine granular sand, this remarkably pleasant spot is surprisingly uncrowded even during peak season.
The fact that the resort is close to some other resort towns will give an additional possibility for entertainment variety. There are a lot of restaurants and amusement places in Byala town and Obzor, because their location directs the sphere of the communal service mainly to the tourism.
Except the Black Sea coast, Obzor borders by the East part of the Balkan mountains, that is wide and low (about 400 m) in this place. It is afforested with broad-leaved trees such as oaks, hornbeams, beech-trees and valuable kind of herbs . This gives an excellent opportunity for hunting tourism that is one more entertainment possibility.
OBZOR - a town to the south of Dvoinitsa River mouth at the foot of the easternmost mountain spurs of the Eastern Balkan Range, 35 km north-east of Nessebar; sea and mountain resort at an altitude of 65 m. Population of 3000. The origins of the town, which the ancient Greeks knew as Heliopolis ("town of the sun"), can be seen in the small park which is lined with columns and statuary fragments from a Roman temple to Jupiter which once graced the spot. The Romans also built a fortress in the vicinity to protect their sea trading routes between Constantinople and the Danube.
Medieval Bulgarians constructed their own Kozyak fortress nearby. Appears as the Mesambria emporium (trading settlement) Navlohos, in Roman times is a coastal fortress. The existence of afforested mountain slopes and the long beach strip provides favourable conditions for recreation.
Seeing as how it would take an experienced archaeologist to locate the remains of either of the ancient fortresses, the best thing to do is relax and kick back on the extensive beach. When boredom sets in, head six kilometers north to Byala. Founded in the 3rd century BC, Byala today is a mix of traditional working village and tourist resort and appears more prosperous than most Bulgarian villages, undoubtedly due to the thriving local wine industry. It also boasts an impressive setting atop bluffs that end abruptly at the water's edge. Stairs lead down to a secluded beach that curves north toward rocky Cape Atanas; to the south, another promontory separates the small sandy strip from the much longer beach at Obzor.
To the south of Obzor, the highway courses for 14 kilometers through open vineyards and the heavily wooded Balkan range to Cape Emine, which overlooks the Bay of Nessebur. Bulgaria's stormiest cape has a lighthouse and the ruins of a medieval fortress and monastery. Today, a deserted church is the only remaining structure. The nearby hamlet of Emona had a Thracian sanctuary and, later, a temple to Jupiter. The name of the medieval Bulgarian fortress, Emona, was derived from Aemon, the ancient name for the Balkan Mountains
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