{"id":185,"date":"2007-11-10T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T13:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-11-10T23:04:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T13:04:23","slug":"varna-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/bulgaria\/varna-bulgaria","title":{"rendered":"Varna &#8211; Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Varna is the third biggest city in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv.\u00a0\u00a0On our way to Balchik, we made a lunch stop here, mainly in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Bulgaria\/Varna\/AJP_2353.jpg.html\" title=\"Varna Town Square\">town square<\/a>.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/36243-2\/AJP_2368.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Varna Town square\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Varna Town square\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Varna&#8217;s history dates back to\u00a0pre-historic times and many cultures existed here.\u00a0 In 1972, the world&#8217;s oldest worked jewelry and other treasures, dating to some four thousand years B.C. , were discovered in Varna.\u00a0\u00a0This <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/35956-2\/DSC_0385.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Varna cathedral\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Varna cathedral\" \/>means that there were other civilizations in the Varna region before the Thracian, Greek and Roman Empires.\u00a0 The treaures are known as the Varna Halkolite Collection and is housed in the Varna Archeological museum,\u00a0together with a store of other treasures.\u00a0 The Preslav treasures consist of 170 gold and silver\u00a0jewelry which probably belong to\u00a0a princess from the court of Tsar Petar I.\u00a0 We attempted to get to the museum, but\u00a0abandoned this idea as by the time we got there, there wouldn&#8217;t be enough time to see the exhibits.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/35966-2\/AJP_2353.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Varna Opera House\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"Varna Opera House\" \/>At the tourist office, we were told that other points of interest include the Roman Baths and the Sea Garden, which on the map looks like a huge complex.\u00a0 Unfortunately, apart from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Bulgaria\/Varna\/AJP_2353.jpg.html\" title=\"Varna Opera House\">Opera House <\/a>on the town square, we didn&#8217;t have time to explore these other places.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pity that our base for last night and tonight is at Sunny Beach as Varna would have been a much nicer and more interesting town to be based in.<\/p>\n<p>Helen\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varna is the third biggest city in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv.\u00a0\u00a0On our way to Balchik, we made a lunch stop here, mainly in the town square. 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