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Route Balchik - Kavarna

This tourist route is combined - part of it goes by walk, but the rest of the route we need to move by car or organized transportation. Because it is lightweight and identification, it is suitable for groups of tourists and families with small children, and why not for nature lovers who simply want to explore the beauty of one of the last remaining pristine areas of the Black Sea coast - that between the towns of Balchik and Kavarna.

The starting point of the route is architectural park complex "The Palace", set during the Romanian government in South Dobrogea in the twentieth century by Queen Mary as a summer residence. She invited Italian architects and Swiss gardeners who made ​​the already beautiful place a paradise where you spend the hot months with their environment.

The palace is a unique combination of different architectural styles, ranging from the construction of the Iberian Peninsula at the time of the Moors, through Renaissance Italy and medieval Transylvania and lead to local characteristics of the building characterized by its red roof and white limestone walls. Surrounded by picturesque cliffs of the bay, it is tucked away in the botanical garden, which is one o the richest plant species not only in Bulgaria but in the Balkans. Besides typical area flora and fauna thrive here thousands of plants from exotic countries.

The next stop on the route is the visitor center "Kaliakra" in Bulgarevo where you can learn a lot about the animal, plant life and history of northeastern Bulgaria, especially in the region of the cape so connected to the past and the mythology of our country. Final destination of the route is very cape located on the easternmost point of the Dobrudja plateau. He and the area around it are part of one of the oldest protected areas in the country, natural and archeological reserve included in the list of hundred tourist sites in Bulgaria.

There is a small picturesque cape of nearly two kilometers into the sea and its rocky, towering profile seems particularly harsh, its sheer cliffs reminiscent of the legend of forty girls who threw away tied to one another hair not to be desecrated by the Ottomans.

Besides the numerous remains of ancient fortresses, settlements and religious centers, here you can see rare fauna such as the Black Sea dolphins and dozens of members of the bird kingdom, relaxing and eating nose during their seasonal migrations along Via Pontica. Kaliakra has a museum, a restaurant and a lighthouse, so you can spend even more enjoyable. The route ends at the town of Kavarna, which is located twelve miles from the Kaliakra cape.

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