Nessebar - UNESCO world heritage Bulgaria

Bulgaria
~ 2500 years Nessebar ~
August 2003

UNESCO World Heritage

Nessebar mediaeval fortress wall - gateway

If you go to Bulgaria, the mediaeval city of Nessebar is a jewel and a must. It was founded as Messambria in the 6th century B.C. by Greek colonists and has been on the World Heritage List of the UNESCO since 1983. Located on a small peninsula in the Black Sea the delightful tourist spot yearly attracts a million visitors. A small street, which connects the peninsula with the mainland, leads through the narrow gateway in the ancient fortress wall

Nessebar Pantokrator church, 13th - 14th century

right to the quaint, tiny historic down town area with numerous well preserved buildings (mainly mediaeval churches) and narrow cobbled lanes, winding amongst wooden houses of the 18th and 19th century. Nessebar's typical houses have stone foundations and broad, overhanging wooden superstructures.

Today the spirit of the ancient market lives on with a multitude of sidewalk vendors, hawking all sorts of art work and tourist souvenirs, such as fine crochet works, knitwear, pottery, wood-carvings, paintings... Idyllic restaurants on the steep coast or in the middle of the old town invite you to rest. The most appealing are located on the peninsula's scenic southern tip. The romantic place has cast a spell on us since we visited it for the first time in 1991 and we shall certainly return whenever we have a chance.


mediaeval fortress wall	old metropolia 5./6. century	Archangel church 13./14. century	St Jean Baptist church 10./11. c.


at the harbour	Paraskeva church 13th century	at the old fountain	bell tower

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