The Bulgarian Black Sea coast between Burgas and the Strandzha — a working port city, a string of old stone towns on headlands, and a summer that empties out hard in October. EU but outside Schengen's land borders until recently, good fibre, and a coast that goes quiet once the last charter flight leaves.
The only region on this site with anything underneath it yet.
Coverage runs from Burgas — the region’s actual city, with the airport, the hospitals and the year-round economy — south along the coast through Sozopol and north through Nesebar. It is a coastline that runs two entirely different economies six months apart, and the site is written for the half of the year nobody photographs.
Written from here, on a date
Coliving in Black Sea
Where you'd actually be
Burgas
A working port city that happens to have beaches, and the only place on this coast with a year-round reason to exist.
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Nesebar
A UNESCO-listed old town on an isthmus, with Sunny Beach immediately next door — which is most of the story.
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Sozopol
A stone old town on a headland, thirty-odd kilometres south of Burgas, and emphatically seasonal.
Read town guide →The practical questions
Getting to and around the Black Sea coast
Burgas airport, the coast road, and what happens to both of them once the season ends.
The Black Sea off-season, honestly
What the coast between Burgas and the Strandzha is actually like from October to May, when the charter flights stop and roughly half the businesses close.