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.