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Burgas (Бургас) is the fourth largest city Bulgaria and is located on the southern Black Sea coast. The port of Burgas is the largest port and only crude oil port in Bulgaria as well as the home port of the Bulgarian overseas fishing fleet, the Black Sea Navy and the coast guard. The city is the center of the Bulgarian fishing and fish processing industry. Burgas Airport is the busiest airport in Bulgaria after Sofia Airport.
Today's city has a Thracian-Roman origin and can look back on over 3000 years of history. The ancient settlement in the area Sladkite Kladenzi on the spit Kumluka in today's part of town Pobeda is called the port of the Thracian kings. Today's city developed from several nearby places, the most important of which were Deultum, Porous and Aquae Calidae.
Burgas is a well-known city for tourism beyond the region. The geographical location between several protected lakes, the Black Sea, the ancient and medieval settlements and the festivals attract not only visitors from the Balkan countries, but from all over Europe and Asia. The Cathedral of the Holy Brothers Kiril and Methodius and the Poda Nature Reserve have been included in the list of 100 national tourist objects in Bulgaria. The Sweta Anastasia Monastery on the offshore island of the same name is the only surviving medieval island monastery in the Black Sea. The patron saint of the city, who also watches over sailors and the sea, is Saint Nicholas (Свети Николай), which is celebrated on December 6th.
Districts
The city of Burgas is made up of 15 districts:
- Akatsiite (Акациите)
- Bratja Miladinovi (Братя Миладинови)
- Gorno ezerovo (Горно езерово)
- Dolno ezerovo (Долно езерово)
- Sornitsa (Зорница)
- Isgrev (Изгрев)
- glaze (Лазур) is the neighborhood that borders directly on the marine park. Although some of the tallest prefabricated buildings from the socialist era are located here, Lazur is experiencing an upswing, which is noticeable, among other things, in the construction of new modern apartment buildings.
- Losowo (Лозово)
- Meden Rudnik (Меден рудник)
- Petko Slavejkov (Петко Славейков)
- Pobeda (Победа)
- Sarafovo (Sarafovo) was created in 1922 as an independent place near today's airport, about 10 km north of the city center. The place was named after the architect of the same name who planned the layout of Sarafovo. In 1987 the village was incorporated as a district into the municipality of Burgas.
- Kraimorie (Крайморие)
- Vasrazhdane (Възраждане) extends along the freight yard to the port.
background
history
Burgas' beginnings go back to antiquity when a marketplace was built on the area of today's city for the Greek settlers of the Middle Colony Apollonia (today's Sozopol) traded with the Thracian princes of the area. Some researchers argue that it may be the port of the Thracian kings. In the late Roman period, Burgas was under the name Develtum (later Develt known), a military colony established under Emperor Vespasian in the 1st century AD. The current name of the city is derived from the Roman-Germanic Burgus, according to an inscription in 154/155 AD from Pantschewo during the time of Antoninus Pius (138-161), or under the governor of Develtum Iulius Commodus, Orfitism was established and in later times it became a synonym for the city that developed from it. The location of this castle is unknown today. The name of the Spanish city has a similar etymology Burgos.
The present city developed from several places in the area, the most important of which were Deultum, Poros and Aquae Calidae. The baths of Aquae Calidae were demonstrably visited by several important rulers in the course of history, in addition to Philip II of Macedonia, among others, the Eastern Roman emperors Justinian I and Constantine IV, the Bulgarian ruler Terwel and the Ottoman sultan Suleyman I.
In 708 the Bulgarian ruler defeated the Byzantine emperor Justinian II in the battle of Anchialos, immediately north of today's Burgas, and the Sagore region with Aquae Calidae and Develtum was incorporated into the Bulgarian Empire for the first time. For the next century, the region was disputed between the Bulgarian and Byzantine empires and rule over it changed often. In 1206, during the Fourth Crusade, the seaside resort of Aquae Calidae, now known as Thermopolis, was destroyed by the Latin Emperor Heinrich, but was later rebuilt by the Bulgarians and Byzantines.
Develtum and Pirgos were conquered by the Ottomans under Sultan Murad I around 1367/1368 and later sold to Byzantium. Around 1453, together with the other nearby coastal cities, they came under Ottoman rule for centuries as one of the last cities in present-day Bulgaria. Deultum was destroyed in the process; the city was unable to recover in the following centuries and no longer played a role in Ottoman history. Thermopolis and pirgos were preserved and were expanded as baths for the Ottoman sultans. In Poros, the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II built a Çiftlik (something like a farm) for his court. For a long time, the former fortress of Pirgos only existed as a fishing settlement.
From the 17th century, the export of grain increased continuously via the port of Burgas and the city overtook Sozopol as an important grain port in the region. In the following decades the population and the importance of Burgas increased again. Several western diplomats and travelers reported during this period that Burgas was a small town and an important trading center and trading center for agricultural goods from eastern Thrace. Burgas is the center of the coast south of the Balkan Mountains and has its own grain measure, the Burgas-Kile. According to a French investigation of the Ottoman Black Sea ports, Burgas was the port with the second highest turnover of goods after Trebizond in 1865.
In the Russo-Turkish War of Liberation of 1877/78, the safe port of Burgas was used as a retreat by the Turkish and Tatar population of Eastern Bulgaria as well as by deserters and irregular Ottoman troops (Başı Bozuk). In contrast to Karbonat and Balgarowo, the city was spared from marauding gangs. When the Turkish domination of what was then Burgas ended on February 6, 1878, the city had a population of just 3,000, although the Turkish-Circassian population left the city before liberation.
From the late 19th century, Burgas developed into an important economic center. The city's first development plan was passed in 1891. The oriental cityscape changed after the western model, above all through the newly erected public buildings: the city library was founded in 1888, the sea garden was laid out in 1891 and the cathedral of the Holy Brothers Kiril and Methodius was built in 1897. The economic also attracted many Bulgarian refugees from what is now Turkey, Greece and Macedonia and Burgas became the largest refugee camp in Bulgaria. The concentration of refugees and the proximity of the Ottoman border meant that in the run-up to the Ilinden-Preobraschenie uprising (1903) in Eastern Thrace, Burgas became an important logistical base of the BMARK. In the vicinity of the city, near today's village of Rossenowo, training camps, weapons and provisions stores were set up.
When the war broke out, the 1st Company of the Twelfth Losengrad Battalion of the Macedonia-Adrianople Volunteer Corps was formed from refugees from Eastern Thracia, which was led by the Swiss Louis-Emil Eyer in the Second Balkan War. After the defeat of Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War, the city was overcrowded with refugees and at the end of the First World War their numbers increased again. In 1918 the Cistercian order, which looked after the refugees in Burgas, founded a boarding school for girls. In 1920 the city became Bulgaria's most important grain export port again and already had more than 21,000 inhabitants. The German School was opened in 1921, and a year later the Swiss AG for Trade and Industrial Values in Glarus received a 25-year concession for the industrial use of Lake Atanasow with salt pans for salt production.
After the communists came to power in 1945, the German and Italian schools and the Volksuniversität were closed. and nationalized over 160 factories, shops, baths and other private property. Total nationalization hampered economic development in the city for decades and political repression against the population of Burgas continued over the next few years. The German School was later used as a hospital until the 1990s. The hospital was popularly known as the German Hospital.
Since the 1950s and 1960s, several corporations in the oil and chemical industry have settled in Burgas as part of the state-mandated planned economy. Industrialization brought additional population growth with it, and in the 1960s a German school was reopened with the Goethe-Gymnasium Burgas. Between 1970 and 1973 a new development plan was adopted and the city was expanded and rebuilt according to the project of the architecture studio IPP Glawproekt according to the socialist model. In the following years the districts of Isgrew, Sorniza, Slawejkow and Meden Rudniask were built, in which buildings from this period still shape the cityscape.
After the end of communism in 1989, the architecture and appearance of the city changed. Nevertheless, today's cityscape of Burgas, especially in the periphery, is shaped by the expansion of the city during the communist era, when the former refugee camps were converted into modern residential areas.
geography
The distance to some larger cities is: Varna 133 km, Plovdiv 267 km, Sofia 385 km, Istanbul 350 km. Burgas is located directly on the Black Sea in the Burgas Bay and is surrounded by several lakes.
Of the three lakes that are in close proximity to Burgas, Lake Mandra (also Мандренско езеро called) with 38 km² the largest. It is located south of Burgas and partly borders the Meden Rudnik district; Since the construction of a dam in 1963, the brackish lake became a fresh water lake, which, among other things, also represents a water reserve for the Neftochim Burgas oil refinery. Parts of the water are strictly protected and are home to 250 species of birds, many of which are on Bulgaria's red list.
At the 27 km² large Burgas Lake (Бургаско езеро), which is surrounded by the districts of Pobeda, Dolno Eserowo, Gorno Eserowo and Slawejkow as well as part of the industrial zone, is a body of water with an average depth of 1.3 m and a salinity of 4-11% the Via Pontica, the eastern north-south migration route for migratory birds. Lake Burgas is also the largest natural lake in the country.
The third in the league is Lake Atanasov (Атанасовско езеро) northeast of the city. The approximately 17 km² large lake is not far from the airport and is divided into two by a strip of sand. Because of the high salt content of 27% and the shallow water depth of a maximum of one meter, it is very well suited for salt production; since 1906 up to 40,000 tons of sea salt have been produced here every year. The northern part was declared a nature reserve in 1980 and is home to innumerable animal species, including 12 endangered bird species such as the pygmy pelt, the Dalmatian pelican and the corn corn.
Twin cities
Sister cities of Burgas are 
Alexandroupolis, 
Krasnodar, 
Potentiometer, 
Rotterdam, 
San Francisco and 
Yantai.
getting there
By plane
The international 
Burgas airport
(IATA: BOJ) is 10 km northeast of the city center. Countless European charter companies fly to Burgas from April to the end of October in particular. In the winter months international flight connections are possible via London and Moscow, there is a daily flight to Sofia, often via Varna.
The airport is only separated from the city center by Lake Atanasov, which is partially overflown on approach and departure. The bus line 15 of the municipal transport company Burgasbus connects the airport with the city center of Burgas. Line 15 runs daily between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. every 25 minutes between the main train station via the municipal clinic, the Lasur Stadium, the Sarafowo district and the airport.
By train
The Burgas train station is in the direct vicinity of the port, it is a so-called dead end station. There are daily connections with the capital Sofia, the journey takes a good six hours. Two different lines lead to the capital, one via Koprivshtitsa, Karlovo, Kazanlak, Sliven and Karnobat, the other via Pasardzhik, Plovdiv, Stara Sagora, Jambol and Karnobat. Since the first goes through the mountains, the drive is more picturesque and scenic. The ticket costs around 15 BGN.
By bus
Buses are by far the most popular means of transport in Bulgaria, as in all of Southeastern Europe, and are a faster means of transport than the train. The prices are extremely interesting, the connections numerous and reach into the most distant corners.
The regional long-distance traffic is carried out by bus lines from the two bus stations. From the Jug bus station (south) next to the main train station, there are connections to all coastal towns in the Burgas province, to Burgas airport (line 15) and to Varna. The Zapad (West) bus station next to the old station is the hub for transit connections and inland. Bus lines to Sofia and in summer to Istanbul run every hour from both bus stations.
International bus connections exist to the larger cities of Southeast Europe. Buses run between Burgas and Istanbul in summer every hour. Connections also exist after Thessaloniki, Athens, Bucharest, Skopje, Belgrade. There are also bus connections to Burgas from some cities in Germany.
In the street
By car from Sofia (София) (so generally applies if you come from Western Europe) the fastest way to get south along the Balkan Mountains is via the A1 Thrace motorway past Plovdiv (Пловдив), Stara Sagora (Стара Загора), Nova Sagora (Нова Загора) to Sliven (Сливен), Karnobat (Карнобат) to Burgas (Бургас).
From the south, i.e. from the Turkish border (Kirklareli is the next larger town on the Turkish side) via the D555-E87 (Turkish side) to the 9-E87 via Malko Tarnovo (Малко Търново), Gramatikovo (Граматиково), Balgari (Българи), Isgrev (Изгрев) through the Strandje mountains to the coast and then north on the coastal road to Kiten (Китен), Primorsko (Приморско) and Sozopol (Созопол) over to Burgas (Бургас).
If you come from Romania (Bucharest) the best way to travel south via the 5-E70 via Giurgiu to Russe (Русе) and from there continue on the 2-E70 via Rasgrad (Разград) until shortly before Shumen (Шумен) where the A2 motorway begins and continues to VarnaВарна) leads. From the Romanian Black Sea coast you simply follow the 9-E87 along the coast to Varna (Варна) and further south over Obzor (Обзор) to Burgas (Бургас).
By boat
There are ferry connections to the Black Sea ports of Poti, Novorossiysk and Port Kawkaz.
mobility
All of Burgas' sights are in the city center or in the immediate vicinity, so they can be easily reached on foot. If you want to reach other parts of the city, there are various options. The easiest and fastest means of transport is the taxi. Taxis can be found on many street corners, usually they are by their yellow or gold color and a sign that says "Такси"(Taxi) to be recognized. All taxis must be equipped with a meter. Journeys within Burgas should generally not cost more than BGN 5-6. Other alternatives are buses and trolleybuses. There are many stops, but unfortunately they are not always clearly marked, so that it can sometimes be necessary to ask passers-by where the next stop can be found. Timetables are also relatively difficult to find. the journey costs BGN 0.60. The ticket must be validated using punches on the walls of the bus. Regular checks are carried out. Modern buses are very rare, often they are imported used vehicles of older format.
It's such a thing with the car, you should by no means expect other road users to observe the road traffic regulations exactly as you are used to from Western Europe. Therefore it is best not to insist on the right of way, but also to brake if necessary. Official parking spaces are rare and mostly paid, so most Bulgarians park wildly. The main thing is that driveways, garages or other vehicles are not blocked. There is a chargeable car park next to the cathedral, from which the pedestrian zone can be easily reached.
Tourist Attractions
The dynamic economic and cultural development of the port city has also been reflected in its architecture since the end of the 19th century. Although the architecture of the quickly built refugee shelters and the architecture of the socialist years characterize the city quarters and former municipal villages today, 264 buildings from different Bulgarian and European styles have been declared cultural monuments in Burgas.
Fortresses and border walls
- 1 Develtum (Деултум)
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- Double fortress Poros
- 2 Aquae Calidae (Акве Калиде)
- Erkesija border wall (Еркесия).The Erkesija was a medieval border wall on the Bulgarian-Byzantine border and is today a cultural monument of national importance. The Erkesija was built by order of the Bulgarian ruler Krum in the 9th century and reached from today's Burgas on the Black Sea to Simeonowgrad on the Maritsa river. Their length was about 140 kilometers. The border wall parted shortly before Pirgos, and its sections reached the banks of today's Burgas and Mandra lakes. The border wall was completely preserved until 1890. Today, several well-preserved pieces are documented along their entire length, one of them between the Deultum archaeological reserve and the district of Burgas Gorno Eserowo.
Within 40 km there are over 150 ancient and medieval fortified settlements, including Apollonia (Sozopol), Anchialus (Pomorie), Mesembria (Nessebar), Aetos (Ajtos) and Rusokastron.
Churches
- 3 Cathedral of St. Cyril and Methodius (Свети Кирил и Методий).The cathedral is located in the square of the same name.
- 4 Armenian Church (Свети Кръст).Built in 1855 by the Armenian minority with the support of the Bulgarians. It is located in the pedestrian zone in the center, next to the Hotel Bulgaria.
- 5 Church of the Holy Assumption (Дева Мария Богородица (Бургас)).The Church of Our Lady is also the oldest Orthodox church in the city. The previous building was destroyed during the Russo-Ottoman War from 1828 to 1829 and is dated to the beginning of the 17th century.
- Church of Saint Ivan Rilskis. The church is closely related to the expansion of the city after the liberation from Ottoman rule and the flow of refugees after the Balkan Wars (1912-13).
Other church buildings are the Bulgarian Orthodox Churches of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Virgin Mary's Birth and St. Pimen Sografski as well as the Roman Catholic Churches of the Holy Assumption and the Holy Mother of God. The Holy Mother of Jesus Monastery is located between the Meden Rudnik and Gorno Eserowo districts.
Buildings
The city administration of Burgas is built in the ancient style.
Monuments
- Burgas Pantheon
Museums
- 6 Burgas Archaeological Museum (Археологически музей), Bogoridi Street 21 (Ул. Богориди). Tel.: (0)56-843 541.Exhibits from the period from 7000 BC to the 15th century.Open: 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. (summer), 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (winter, closed on Saturday).
- 7 Burgas Ethnographic Museum (Етнографски музей), Slavianska street 69 (Ул. Славянска. Tel.: (0)56-842 587.Life and work in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Burgas region, numerous traditional costumes and typical clothing and fabrics from the Strandje area.Open: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed on Mondays in summer and on Sundays and Mondays in winter.
- 8 Burgas Historical Museum (Исторически музей (Бургас)), Lermontov Street (Ул. Lemontov, 8000 Бургас, ул. Лермонтов 31. Tel.: (0)56-841 815, (0)56-840 017.History and development of the city of Burgas in the Revival period and at the beginning of the 20th century.Open: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed on Sundays and Mondays.
- 9 Natural Science Museum Burgas (Природонаучен музей, Бургас), K. Fotinov Street 20 (Ул. Фонтинов, 8000 Бургас, ул. "К. Фотинов “30. Tel.: (0)56-843 239.Flora and fauna of the Black Sea coast and the Strandscha Mountains.Open: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (closed on Mondays in summer and on Saturdays and Mondays in winter).
Streets and squares
Parks
- Marine park (Морската градина). The extensive park extends for several kilometers along the beach of Burgas and ends at the pier. In the park there are numerous cafes, restaurants, bars and discos as well as a concert square and monuments and memorials.
- Borisova gradina. Borisgarten, for example.
- Kapcheto Park (87 ha) on the eastern slope of the Warli Brjag summit, den Kraimorie Park (412.6 ha) along the Black Sea coast, den Bryastovets Draganovo Izworishte Park (818.3 ha) on the southern slope of the Balkan Mountains and the Park Ezeroto between Lake Atanasov and the districts of Isgrew and Sornitsa. in the Park RossenezLocated south of the city in the direction of Sozopol in the foothills of the Strandscha Mountains and along the Black Sea coast, there is the fishing settlement and the residential area of Alatepe.
various
- The regional customs office building was built in 1911 as the last administrative building on the station forecourt. The project comes from the Austrian architect Weinstein; The Bulgarian-Austrian architect Georgi Fingow was in charge of the construction. Stylistically, the building is a mixture of later neoclassicism and eclecticism.
activities
- In mid-March the festival for contemporary Включи града (Eng. turn on the city) carried out
- Every year in May and September, the "Flora" flower show takes place in the marine park, both in the park itself and in tents.
- In August the national music competition "Burgas and the Sea" (Бургас и морето) and the international folklore festival.
- At the beginning of August, the pop and rock festival Spirit of Burgas takes place on the city beach.
- In December, around the holiday (December 6th) of the city patron, many activities and concerts take place
shop
As in all major cities in Bulgaria, shops in Burgas are generally open from 09:30 or 10:00 a.m. to at least 8:00 p.m. The large supermarkets and chains are located a little outside the center, while the smaller shops and stores can be found directly in the center. The two main shopping streets are Bogoridi Street (ул. Богориди), which leads from the marine park to the city administration, and Alexandrovska street (ул. Александровска), which runs from the train station to the university and its side streets. There are two smaller shopping centers on Alexandrovska Street, the Pirgos Shopping Center and the Tria City Center. The latter is on Troïka Square.
If you are looking for non-Bulgarian books, you come to the Helikon bookshop (Хеликон) hardly over. It is located on Troïka Square, approximately at the level of the fountain, on the left side of the road when you come up from Alexandrovska Street. In the bookstore you will find mainly English, but also some German and French books on the first floor.
Major shopping centers are Burgas Plaza, Galleria Burgas and The Strand on the outskirts, as well as Pyrgos Plaza and Shoping Mall Tria in the pedestrian zone in the city center. All major Bulgarian retail chains are present in the city. The big supermarket chains also include Billa, Metro, LIDL, Kaufland, Penny and Picadilly. The Technopolis and Techno Market electrical wholesalers are also close to the Metro and Picadilly, where you can find all kinds of electrical appliances and accessories such as cables, chargers, batteries for cameras, laptops, etc. All these shops are located in the Slavejkov district (Славейков).
kitchen
nightlife
- alibi, in Primorski Park. Tel.: (0)888-594913, (0)898-575546. Here mainly dance and charts play, a retro evening once a week (music from the late 1970s and 1980s), and an open-air terrace in summer.Price: Entry: BGN 2.
- tequila, in Primorsko Park. It is a semi-open structure on the first floor. Something of everything, both in terms of audience and music.
- Studio 54, in the basement of the Tequila Club. Tel.: (0)886-005454. With guest list, only open in winter.
accommodation
In the coastal districts of Sarafovo, Lazur and Kraimorie, mainly small family pensions can be found, while the larger hotels are in the city center.
Cheap
- Guest house Fotinov
- Hotel Lazur
- Hostel Burgas
- Hotel Laguna Kraimorie
medium
- Hotel Aqua, Demokracia Boulevard, Lazur Complex, 8000 Burgas. Near the center, 89 rooms, opened in 2005.
- Hotel Boulevard
- Hotel Cosmos
Upscale
- Hotel Burgas
- Hotel Primoretz
- Hotel Bulgaria, Aleksandrovska Street 21, 8000 Burgas. Centrally located in the heart of the city on the pedestrian zone, 400 m from the train station.
- Hotel Mirage, Complex Slaveikov 93, 8000 Burgas. Very modern architectural style, 20 floors, 130 rooms, located about 2 km from the center.
Learn
In Burgas there are the following universities and colleges: the Asen-Zlatarow University of Burgas, the Free University of Burgas (participates in the Socrates / Erasmus exchange program) and a branch of the American University of Bulgaria. In the area of secondary education, various grammar schools should be mentioned, all of which have a certain subject as a specialty:
- High School "Geo Milev". English.
- Goethe high school. German.
- Grammar School "G. S. Rakovski". Romance languages.
- Gymnasium "N.Obreschkov". Science and Mathematics.
- High School "Vasil Levski". Foreign languages.
- Business high school
Work
security
health
Burgas is the health center of Eastern Bulgaria. The city's clinics look after the entire southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast and the south-east of the country in emergencies. Among the major clinics are the First and Second Municipal Hospitals, the Deva Maria and Life Hospital private hospitals, and the balneological sanatorium in the Burgas Mineral Baths. In addition, the city has an eye clinic, a stomatology, a psychiatry, an oncology clinic, a military hospital and other smaller clinics. Currently (January 2012) another hospital and a children's clinic are being built in the Meden Rudnik district.
Practical advice
The Alte Post is located in the city center opposite the train station and the provincial administration.
trips
- Nessebar with the picturesque old town, which is located on a peninsula, is just under 30 km north of Burgas.
- Soosopol is 33 km south of Burgas on the Black Sea, and is characterized by a beautiful old town, which, like Nessebar, is characterized by typical houses from the period of rebirth.
- Pomorie is a small town about halfway between Burgas and Nessebar and one of the country's famous wine regions. You can discover the salt museum and a Thracian barrow, among other things.
- The nature reserve [1] is located in the south of Burgas on both sides of the expressway that connects Burgas with Sozopol and is comprised of the Pobeda, Meden Rudnik and Kraimorie districts. This wetland is a true paradise for ornithologists and nature lovers, as countless rare bird species can be observed here. The best starting point is the nature conservation center, which can be reached via bus lines 5, 51, 17 and 18. There are also guest rooms available if you want to stay overnight. Address: Nature Conservation Center Poda, P. O. Box 361, 8000 Burgas; Tel. Fax: 056-850 540, 056-850 541; Email: [email protected]; Entrance fee: students BGN 1, adults BGN 2, lecture BGN 10, one-hour guided tour BGN 15.
literature
- Miroslav Klasnakov: Селищна могила Бургас. Сезон 2009 (German: The settlement hill Burgas. 2009 season). In: Българска Археология 2009 (German Bulgarian archeology 2009), Sofia 2010, pp. 10-11.
- Ivan Karajotow, Stojan Rajtschewski, Mitko Ivanov: История на Бургас. От древността до средата на ХХ век. (German History of the city of Burgas. From antiquity to the middle of the 20th century.) Publishing house Tafprint OOD, Plovdiv 2011, ISBN 978-954-92689-1-1 .
- Stojan Rajtschewski: Старият Бургас. (German The old Burgas), Zahari Stoyanov Publishing House, 2011, ISBN 978-954-09026-6-1 .
- Atanas Sirkarov: Архитектурата на Бургас 1878-1940. (German The architecture of Burgas 1878-1940), Publishing House Baltika, Burgas 2010, ISBN 978-954-8040-29-7
- Burgas Archaeological Museum with branches in Nessebar and Sozopol, Goro Gorov, Verl. Bulgarski hudoshnik (1967), AISIN B0000BNR3L
- Bulgaria Black Sea Coast, Christian Gehl, Verlag Müller (Michael), Erlangen (May 2005), ISBN 3899532163
Web links
- www.burgas.bg: Official website of the city
- www.tic.burgas.bg: Excellent interactive city map (currently English and Bulgarian, German to follow)
- www.bourgas-airport.com: Flughafen Burgas (Englisch und Bulgarisch)
- www.direktflug.de: Übersicht aller Direktflüge aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum nach Burgas
- www.restaurant.bg: Restaurants in Burgas
- www.bar.bg: Bars und Casinos in Burgas
- www.disco.bg: Diskotheken und Clubs in Burgas
- www.hoteli.bg: Hotels & Apartments in Burgas
- www.burgasmuseums.bg: Museen, Ausstellungen, Kulturprogramm, Monumente, Naturschutzgebiete im Bezirk Burgas (Bulgarisch und Englisch)
