Resort development started in 1957 and in about two decades, the place was transformed into a modern holiday complex with numerous hotels (many open year-round), villas, apartment buildings, spa centres, restaurants, clubs, casinos, attractions, shopping centres, and sports facilities, including a yacht marina, a horse riding school, and the Aquapolis water park.Hot mineral water springs and lush woodlands cascading from the Franga Plateau, forming the Golden Sands Nature Park, turn the town into one of the most popular tourist spots in Eastern Europe. It also comprises the Holiday Club Riviera luxury resort, several villa communities including Panorama, Chaika, Kabakum, and Alen Mak, and the historic grotto of Aladzha Monastery in the vicinity. A contemporary chapel of John the Baptist was recently added. Just north is perhaps the best known gay beach in the nation.
The mineral springs at Golden Sands give you health and beauty all year round. There are four particularly valuable mineral springs with a flow of 150 m3/sec. Several balneotherapy and fitness centers have been established on the basis of their curative properties which offer over 100 different kinds of medical services, combined with various treatment and recuperation programs. The resort's natural factors are utilized here all year round - specific climate, clean air, sea water, abounding in salts and microelements, curative mud and different kinds of herbs. Arthritis, arthroses, stress, neuroses, chronic pharyngitis, bronchitis, asthma, etc. are successfully treated at the balneotherapy centers.
Besides traditional methods, treatment with apian products - propolis and beesvenom as well as ancient Chinese medical methods are also used.
cultural tourism
Varna Museum of Archeology
The Hotnitza Treasure - The oldest gold in Bulgarian lands
The Gold Of Varna Prehistoric Necropolis - The beginning of social division of society
The Vulchitrun Treasure - Vessels of the sun cult
The Kralevo Treasu - The horse ornaments of a prominent Thracian
The Rogozen Treasure - The untold riches of a thracian noble
The Vratza Treasure - The fabulous tomb of a rich thracian princess
The Panagyurishte Treasure - The shine of thracian royal gold
The Borovo Treasure - A feast eating or a sacrificial set
The Letnitza Treasure - Invaluable monument of thracian art
The Varna Treasure - The toilet of a byzantine noble lady
The Pereshchepina Treasure - Khan kubrat's grave
The Preslav Treasure - The rise and fall of great Preslav
The Nikopol Treasure - One or two treasures in Balinovtzi
Thracian Beehive Tomb of Kazanlak
The Boyana Church
Koprivshtica
Shipka
Old Plovdiv
St. George in Bulgarian culture
Bulgarian Monasteries:
In Rila Mountain
In Pirin Mountain
In Rhodopes Mountain
In Balkan Mountain
In Vitosha Mountain
Rock Monasteries
The cultural and information center in the complex offers a rich and versatile concert program, folk music performances and shows in the open.
It organizes exhibitions of Bulgarian artists, courses in the Bulgarian language, folk songs and dances, vanguard fashion shows. You can take part in beauty contests, beer festivals, a parade of retro cars, to mention but a few.
You can enjoy the performances at the International Varna Summer Festival of opera, ballet, theatre and jazz music, folklore and others.
