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National Archaeological reserve Yailata and Cape Chirakman

National Archaeological reserve Yailata

 National Archaeological reserve "Yailata" is a unique place that combines archaeological remains with the nature. Located 2 km. south of the village of Kamen Beach, a seaside Yailata terrace area of ​​300 acres, separated from the sea with a 50-60 meter cliffs.
    In the reserve are numerous monuments, covering different historical periods. Here is the "cave city" 101 "houses" inhabited as early V century BC. Have been used for millennia as housing and some of them as tombs or churches.

                                     Cape Chirakman 

Impressive Chirakman is a symbol of Kavarna. It is located 3 km. south of Kavarna, as a beautiful ending to a lovely valley, through which passes the road from the port city and the sea. Right here on a flat and almost inaccessible Chirakmansko plateau for millennia is intense bubbling life.

Cape Kaliakra

Kaliakra is a long and narrow headland of the northern Bulgaria Black Sea Coast, located 12 km east of Kavarna. The coast is steep with vertical cliffs reaching 70 m down to the sea. Kaliakra is a nature reserve.

The legend about Saint Nicholas, patron of sailors. Saint fled from the Turks and God prolong hard ground under his feet to be able to escape, and thus was created and nose. Eventually he was captured there and now there is a chapel, restored in 1993, symbolizing his grave. At this place during the Ottoman rule there were dervish monastery, which is claimed to keep the relics of Saint Sara Sultuk Turkish. Small nose north of cape named St. Nicholas.

Bay Bolata

On the north side of the cape is a small cove with a port called Bolata. This is a firth and a narrow gorge that cuts through the coast to the former war zone. On both sides there are rock formations with caves carved into them. In short Bolata flow stream that is fed by numerous springs. At the point where it flows into the sea, formed a lagoon estuary. This is the only sandy beach in the area Bolata is the only reserve in Bulgaria, including the territorial sea, sea area. This may occur zemerodni kingfishers, bittern, herons, grebes and ducks.  In the caves of Bolata are remains of ancient settlement and evidence of life from 400 BC.

Culture

 Since 2004 the town has turned in one of the centers of musical life in Bulgaria. Kavarna has been the host to several rock and roll concerts. In 2005 the most popular band to play in the town’s stadium was Deep Purple. Kaliakra Rock Fest  –  A Metal festival including many metal bands. The same year followed the tradition with concerts of more metal bands as well as some pop and dance musicians.

History

   
  Kavarna is a Black Sea coastal town. The town was founded in the 5th century BC by Ancient Greek colonists who settled on the Chirakman Plateau in the colony Byzone (or Bizone). During the second part of the 1st century BC the ancient town fell in the sea because of a disastrous earthquake. The frontal part of the Chirakman broke off and together with the richest citizens fell into the Black Sea's waters. For that evidence the located form skin-divers borders of a sunk residential district of the town of Bizone in Kavarna's coast.                                     

     During Roman times the town was restored under the same name and quickly flourished, the settlement revived and the port brightened up. The town was considered an economical and cultural centre during Antiquity and the Middle Ages with rich and various remains – stronghold walls, early-Christian basilica, medieval churches, and public
buildings.   
     Between the 15th and 19th century the town becomes popular under the name Kavarna, as a Christian settlement and port for grain export. From that time remain a Turkish bath, a medieval necropolis, a bridge, fountains, Christian churches and many inscriptions.                                  
      From the beginning of 20th century Kavarna achieved a rapid progress as an economical and cultural centre. The town, styled Cavarna, went under Romanian rule after the Second Balkan War in 1913 and again after the First World War in 1919 but this was met with resistance by the local Bulgarian population and its Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation. In 1940 the town was ceded back to Bulgaria by the Treaty of Craiova.

Monuments and museums

                               The old fountains

    

     These were 12 spring fountains situated along the valley to the port. A part of them were destroyed and the rest were restored recently. The great amount of spring water forms a small river.

                     The Dobruja and the Sea Display

    The Dobruja and the Sea Display is a small maritime museum.It is situated in an approximately restored Turkish bath, the Hamam. It was built in the beginning of the 15^th century and represents a massive beehive bath from stone.

                           Ethnographic Museum

   

The Ethnographic Museum represents an old house from the end of the 19^th century that belonged to a rich family. Its interior reveals the customs and culture of the people inhabiting that part of the country. The building is surrounded by a garden full of mulberry trees, peonies and tulips.

                                  Town Museum

 

   The Town Museum can be found in the building of the local library. Materials, revealing the thousand-year old history of town are displayed in its exposition. Evidence for the life of the people in the region since ancient times is represented here. A model of prehistoric cave-dwellings, many tools, guns, rifles and pistols from some wars.

        

                                             Churches 

 

   There are two churches in the town both located in the town centre. The Church of Saint George was built in 1836 and the Dormition of the Theotokos Church in 1860.