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XL.com - the home of cheap flights to
Bulgaria
Fly to Bourgas, Bulgaria's south eastern gateway to the Black Sea Riviera where
fabulous holiday resorts of wide white sands sit side by side with charming
medieval towns and fishing villages, their narrow cobbled streets overflowing
with traces of Bulgaria's chequered ancient past.
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Bulgaria
Fly to Bourgas basking on the Black Sea shores where 230 miles of broad sandy
beaches offer excellent bathing in calm, non-tidal waters, the sands shelving
gently out to sea. Fly to Bourgas with XL.com for superb Black Sea holidays,
the beautiful mountain scenery of Bulgaria's Eastern Balkans and countless
archaeological treasures dating back to the Thracian, Greek, Roman and Ottoman
periods.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for UNESCO
World Heritage sites
Bulgaria boasts a total of nine UNESCO listed World Heritage Sites, one of these
being the picturesque fishing village of Nessebur, just over 20 miles from
Bourgas and one of Europe's oldest towns. Dating back over 9,000 years to a
Thracian settlement, Nessebur's old quarter lies on a small peninsula connected
by a narrow isthmus to the mainland and brimming with cobbled lanes, courtyards
and taverns and over 40 beautiful Byzantine churches. The central valley of
Kazanluk is home to another UNESCO site - the Thracian Tomb, part of the
necropolis of Sevtopolis with perfectly preserved murals dating from the 4th
Century BC.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for Blue Flag
beaches
Blue Flag beaches are scattered across the entire length of Bulgaria's Black Sea
coastline, the highest concentration found around Bourgas and Sozopol to the
south. Pomorie and Elenite are both considered excellent beaches of fine, pale
gently shelving sands providing safe, shallow bathing whilst the 5-mile stretch
of golden sands is the hub of Sunny Beach, the largest holiday resort in the
area and backed by natural sand dunes and calm, clear waters. Further south
Duni is a quiet secluded holiday village lying amidst sand dunes and the
natural beauty of the nearby Alepou lagoon.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for The Black
Sea capital
Widely considered Bulgaria's seaside capital, the city of Varna nestles in a
deep valley on the Black Sea, 75 miles north along the coast from Bourgas.
Varna was founded as a Greek colony with traces of its Roman occupation still
visible in the spa and bath. The Sea Garden and dolphinarium are popular
tourist haunts with plenty to see and do including children's playgrounds,
beaches, pools, rowing lake, observatory, planetarium and tower.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for Ropotamo
river boats
Head south from Bourgas for 30 miles or so to the Ropotamo River delta, a
protected nature reserve renowned for its beautiful white water lilies.
Accessed only by boat cruise or riverbank trail, fragrant lilies also dot the
sands as the landscape ranges from sandy beaches and dunes to lushly forested
cliffs and the haunting beauty of the water meadows and marshland; the Arkutino
swamp a shelter to many rare species of bird amidst the rushes and reeds.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for Popular
world class wines
Over the years Bulgarian wines have escalated in popularity, vines now
cultivated across most of the country. The production of white wines is
concentrated along the Black Sea coast, popular grape varieties being the
native Misket and Dimiat imparting wines with just a hint of spice. Vineyards
in the Pomorie and Nessebur areas welcome visitors for tours and a chance to
taste some of their high quality wines and brandies.
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Cheap flights to Bulgaria for Relaxing
in Sozopol
20 miles south of Bourgas, the town of Sozopol, previously known as Apolonia,
juts out into the Black Sea on its own rocky strip of land and bears testament
to its ancient Thracian origins in its cobbled streets, churches, period houses
and archaeological museum. Its wide sandy beach lies in the modern area of the
town with excellent nearby beaches including Duni to the south near the
Ropotamo Reserve and Gold Fish to the north where there is good windsurfing and
a surf school offering tuition.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for Glorious
mud
Lying 15 miles north of Bourgas on a narrow rocky peninsula, the popular resort
town of Pomorie is backed by its famous lake, its high mineral and salt content
responsible for its curative abilities. Renowned since Thracian times for its
healing properties and considered sacred by the ancients, modern day health
complexes are located on the banks of the lake offering restorative mud and
water therapies.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for Istanbul
nights
The city of Istanbul straddles the continents of Europe and Asia, a rich and
intoxicating blend of sultans' palaces, ornate mosques, teeming bazaars, craft
plying the busy waters of the Bosphorus and glittering jewel-bedecked exhibits
in the city's superb Topkapi Museum. A 2-day excursion from Bulgaria allows
time to explore former Constantinople, fascinating old capital of the Ottoman
Empire, with the city situated about 160 miles around the Black Sea coast from
the town of Bourgas.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for Valley of
the Roses
The town of Kazanluk, deep in the 'Valley of the Roses', is at the centre of one
of Bulgaria's major exports - that of rose oil. Virtually all of the world's
supply of the extremely valuable attar of roses originates in Bulgaria. Endless
fields of damask roses are cultivated around Kazanluk, the harvest celebrated
each year in the Festival of the Roses during the first week of June.
Cheap flights to Bulgaria for Mountain
village traditions
The archetypal mountain village of red roofs and quaint wooden houses can be
found in Jeravna situated about 60 miles from Bourgas in the Eastern Balkan
Mountain range. With just over 200 wooden houses, some dating back over 300
years, this picturesque village counts only 500 inhabitants but enjoys
fantastic panoramic views across some of the best trekking and hiking trails in
Bulgaria.
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