Bulgaria
Things to do in Varna
18 places14 stories2 routes
Sightlore has 18 places to explore in Varna, and 14 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Varna's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Varna Opera Theatre
The Varna Opera is an opera house in Varna, Bulgaria.
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Euxinograd
Euxinograd is a late 19th-century Bulgarian former royal summer palace and park on the Black Sea coast, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of downtown Varna.
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Varna Aquarium
The Varna Aquarium or Aquarium Varna is a public aquarium in Varna, Bulgaria's largest city on the Black Sea coast.
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Madara Rider
The Madara Rider or Madara Horseman is a large early medieval rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the village of Madara.
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Festa Dolphinarium
Dolphinarium in the northern part of the Sea Garden in Varna, opened on 11 August 1984, with 1,200 seats.
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Aladzha Monastery
Aladzha Monastery is a medieval Orthodox Christian cave monastery complex in northeastern Bulgaria, 17 km north of central Varna and 3 km west of Golden Sands beach resort, in a protected forest area adjacent to the Golden Sands Nature Park.
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Sea Garden
The Sea Garden, or formally the Seaside Park is the Bulgarian port city of Varna's largest, oldest and best known public park, also said to be the largest landscaped park in the Balkans.
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Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral
The Dormition of the Mother of God Cathedral is the largest church building in Varna and the third largest cathedral in Bulgaria (after St. Alexander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia and St.
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Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery
The Boris Georgiev City Art GalleryBulgarian: Градска художествена галерия „Борис Георгиев“, Gradska hudozhestvena galeria „Boris Georgiev“) is the municipal art gallery of Varna, Bulgaria.
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Odessos
Ancient city, predecessor of Varna, founded around 570 BC by Milesian colonists near an earlier Thracian settlement.
Discovery routes in Varna
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Varna: from the cathedral to the Sea Garden
From the Dormition Cathedral and the Archaeological Museum to the Roman remains of Odessos, past the opera, theatre and art gallery to the Naval Museum, the Sea Garden, the aquarium and the dolphinarium.
Around Varna: Aladzha, Pobiti Kamani and Madara
From Euxinograd Palace to the rock-cut Aladzha Monastery, from the stone columns of Pobiti Kamani to the Madara Rider rock relief.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Odessos
Ancient city, predecessor of Varna, founded around 570 BC by Milesian colonists near an earlier Thracian settlement.
Varna Opera Theatre
The Varna Opera is an opera house in Varna, Bulgaria.
Stoyan Bachvarov Dramatic Theatre
The Stoyan Bachvarov Dramatic Theatre is a theatre in Varna, Bulgaria, founded in 1921 as the Municipal Professional Theatre.
Euxinograd
Euxinograd is a late 19th-century Bulgarian former royal summer palace and park on the Black Sea coast, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of downtown Varna.
Madara Rider
The Madara Rider or Madara Horseman is a large early medieval rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the village of Madara.
Asparuhov most
The Asparuhov most or Asparuhov Bridge is a bridge in Varna on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. It connects the Asparuhovo district to the rest of the city over the canals between the Black Sea and Lake Varna.
Museums
Varna Archaeological Museum
The Varna Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in the city of Varna on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.
Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery
The Boris Georgiev City Art GalleryBulgarian: Градска художествена галерия „Борис Георгиев“, Gradska hudozhestvena galeria „Boris Georgiev“) is the municipal art gallery of Varna, Bulgaria.
Varna Naval Museum
Naval museum in Varna, a branch of the National Museum of Military History.
Varna Aquarium
The Varna Aquarium or Aquarium Varna is a public aquarium in Varna, Bulgaria's largest city on the Black Sea coast.
Places of worship
Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral
The Dormition of the Mother of God Cathedral is the largest church building in Varna and the third largest cathedral in Bulgaria (after St. Alexander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia and St.
Aladzha Monastery
Aladzha Monastery is a medieval Orthodox Christian cave monastery complex in northeastern Bulgaria, 17 km north of central Varna and 3 km west of Golden Sands beach resort, in a protected forest area adjacent to the Golden Sands Nature Park.
St. Petka church, Varna
Orthodox church in central Varna; its construction began in 1901.
Varna Monastery
Varna Monastery is a large preserved early medieval monastery complex, opened near Varna, Bulgaria, with the status of a cultural monument of national importance for Bulgaria since 2015.
Nature
Sea Garden
The Sea Garden, or formally the Seaside Park is the Bulgarian port city of Varna's largest, oldest and best known public park, also said to be the largest landscaped park in the Balkans.
Festa Dolphinarium
Dolphinarium in the northern part of the Sea Garden in Varna, opened on 11 August 1984, with 1,200 seats.
Pobiti Kamani
Pobiti Kamani, tubular concretions formed around "rising methane-bearing fluid plumes", is a desert-like rock phenomenon located on the north west Varna Province border in Bulgaria.
Bulgarian-Soviet friendship monument
The largest monument in Varna Province, standing on Turna Tepe hill in the north-east of the city, 95 m above sea level.
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