Sunday 3 July 2011

World Bigest Garden

The town is famous for the largest and richest botanical garden on the Balkans and the palace to Queen Maria of Romania (1924). The palace complex consists of a central palace with a high tower, many buildings in a style typical for that time, a park with terraces, lanes and paths, stone alcoves with marvellous columns and sea view.
It was constructed between 1926 and 1937, during the Romanian rule of the region to serve as summer residence to Queen Maria of Romania. The authors of the construction design are Italian architects. The palace complex consists of a number of residential villas originally meant to host Romanian aristocrats, a smoking hall, a wine cellar, a power station, a monastery, a holy spring, a chapel, which still keeps the heart of the queen after her will, a beautiful stone throne under an old tree where Queen Maria loved to watch the sunset, and many other buildings, as well as most notably a park that is today a state-run botanical garden.

World Biggest Garden

At 17 km from Kavarna and 30 km north of Varna, is situated the Balchik city. One of the most beautiful cities on the Bulgarian Black sea coast. Balchik is a small seaside town in Northern Bulgaria which combines the romance of its steep streets with the beauty of the sea. It is one of the oldest European towns. It was founded more than 2600 years ago by Ionian colonists on the ruins of quite earlier settlement known under the name of Krouni. The old town is situated stands in tiers on the slopes of an ancient fault. For a long time it has been known as the White Town. The old houses and cobblestone lanes are the “trade mark” , the brand of the White Town. The remarkable location of Balchik-on terraces – above the picturesque bay, the bright white heights, sculptured by weather and wind, which surrounded it from all sides, the romantic, buried in greenery an dashed meandering at the seashore – all this fairy site – scene of stone, sun, meerschaum and flowers create the magic atmosphere of this oasis of piece. The area that features most tourists is the