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Location Information:
Sunny
Beach is a major seaside resort on
the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria,
located approximately 35 km north of
Burgas in Nessebar municipality,
Burgas Province. It is the biggest
and most popular holiday resort in
Bulgaria, and is home to over
800 hotels with more than 300 000
beds. There are also 130 restaurants
and numerous live music bars, pubs,
nightclubs, discos, cafes. It has
been undergoing continuous expansion
for many years. In recent years
almost the whole hotel base has been
renovated and several new luxurious
hotels have been built as well as
many apartment complexes. It is
widely believed in Bulgaria that
Sunny Beach was heavily
overdeveloped in the 2000s to the
detriment of its greenery, former
serenity, safety, and the quality of
public services.
Sunny Beach has a very small
permanent population, but during the
summer the resort is home to many
thousands of tourists. The main
strip of high-rise hotels backing
onto the beach is several kilometers
long and extends along a wide bay
between Sveti Vlas and Nessebar.
The resort's construction began back
in Communist times, in 1958.
Construction works began at a site,
where two old wells supplying
Nessebar with water in ancient times
and during the Middle Ages, had been
located.
The climate of the area is
Mediterranean, explaining Sunny
Beach's popularity with tourists
since the Soviet Union existed.
Since that time the resort's
popularity has grown among German
holidaymakers, who add to the
already large numbers of Russian
visitors. More recently, Sunny Beach
has begun to attract the attention
of the British, Irish, Scandinavian,
for which it is a more affordable
alternative to the established
Mediterranean resorts.
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