Town Obzor
At a point roughly midway between Bourgas and Varna, the E-87 highway emerges from the hilly wooded terrain into a brief open coastal stretch around Obzor. Despite the town`s convenient location and six-kilometer long sandy beach (the largest between Golden Sands and Sunny Beach), this remarkably pleasant spot is surprisingly uncrowded even during peak season.
The origins of the town, which the ancient Greeks knew as Heliopolis ("town of the sun"), can be seen in the small park which is lined with columns and statuary fragments from a Roman temple to Jupiter which once graced the spot. The Romans also built a fortress in the vicinity to protect their sea trading routes between Constantinople and the Danube. Medieval Bulgarians constructed their own Kozyak fortress nearby.
Obzor is a major rest stop for buses and vans from Bourgas and Varna that regularly ply the north-south coastal highway, so getting there from either direction is not a problem.
Quick facts about Town Obzor
In Bulgarian (Native transliteraion): Град ОбзорRegion: South-Eastern planing region of Bulgaria
District: Bourgas district
Municipality: Nessebar municipality
Latitude: 42.8170013
Longtitude: 27.8829994
Distance by air to the capital city Sofia: 373.061km
Area Size: 36.779km2
Population: 2177 people (31.12.2013)
Postal Code: 8250
Phone Code: 0556