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Bulgária - East - Varna

Bulgária - East - Varna

©by Valeria Zapryanova

2007 10 17


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Hi, my name is Valeria and I was born in 1960. I like looking at the world through my photocamera. I'm an amateur not a professional and I enjoy catching inspiring moments.
My city's been undergoing changes and its romantic silhouette's steadily vanishing. But I try to do my best to keep the memory of it.
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Varna is among Europe's oldest cities. Miletians founded the apoikia (trading colony) of Odessos in 570 BCE (in the time of Astyages) within an earlier Thracian settlement.

Varna is the second most important economic centre for Bulgaria after Sofia [4], the country's foremost trade link to Russia, and one of the major hubs for the Black Sea region.

Varna hosts international competitions, including world championships, and national events in several sports on a regular basis

The city beaches, also known as sea baths (?????? ????, morski bani), are dotted with hot sulphuric mineral water sources (used for spas, swimming pools and public showers) and punctured by small sheltered marinas.

The beach resorts were rebuilt and expanded, fortunately without being as heavily overdeveloped as were other tourist destinations on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, and their greenery was mostly preserved. New modern office buildings started reshaping the old centre and the city's surroundings

Varna has some of the finest and oldest museums, professional arts companies, and arts festivals in the nation and is known for its century-old traditions in visual arts.

In 2007, Varna was home to a total of 2,500 faculty and researchers and over 30,000 students


Varna is one of the few cities in Bulgaria with a positive population growth and new children's day care centers opening.


Over the last couple of years, crime has subsided, which is said to have contributed to Varna's naming as Bulgaria's Best City to Live In (2007)[33]; in 2007

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