Soosopol is a city in the district (Oblast) Burgas.
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| Soosopol | ||
| Oblast | Burgas | |
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| Residents | 4.837 (2020) | |
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background
Sozopol was founded in 610 BC. Founded by Greek settlers and is located on a rocky peninsula.
getting there
By boat
Between Nessebar and Sozopol a speedboat runs from mid-May to mid-October (Timetable). From mid-June to early September three times a day in each direction, the rest of the time four trips a week.
Tourist Attractions
- Old town. The old town is of particular tourist interest. The ancient and medieval cities were, like today's old town of Sozopol, on the Skamnij peninsula. The old town is characterized by narrow, steep cobblestone streets and characteristic houses and was declared an open-air museum in 1974. This open-air museum includes more than 180 houses that were built in the 18th and 19th centuries and stylistically belong to the Black Sea type, the ethnographic museum, the art gallery, several churches and chapels as well as the remains of the former city monasteries and the city wall.
- Sweti Iwan, Sweti Petar and Sweti Kirik Islands. Also worth seeing are the three small islands in front of the old town.
- Weir systems. The ancient fortifications of Apollonia were largely destroyed by the Romans, but some have been preserved. Others, such as the city wall, were rebuilt at a later date. The Byzantine Emperor Anastasios I had the city walls built around 511. These not only protected the city from the land side, but also surrounded it from the sea side. The fortifications, which were up to five meters high in some places, were repeatedly expanded and renewed in the following centuries. The remains of the walls of the fortifications, which were only destroyed in Ottoman times in 1623, are the only remaining remains of medieval Sosopolis. Since the late 1990s, parts of it that have been preserved in some places up to over seven meters high have been reconstructed.
- Thracian tombs. The mountainous region around Sozopol is littered with over 1500 Thracian dolmens, necropolises and smaller barrows. However, these are still unexplored, in contrast to the necropolis of ancient Apollonia, which has been archaeologically studied since the 19th century.
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