Coordinates: 42°41′35″N, 27°42′30″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Part of the Sunny Beach beach strip

The resort has experienced plenty of large-scale construction in recent years

Sunny Beach panorama

Sunny Beach (Bulgarian: Слънчев бряг, Slǎnchev bryag, German: Sonnenstrand, Russian: Солнечный берег, Dutch: Zonnestrand) is a resort on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, located approximately 35 km north of Burgas in Nesebar municipality, Burgas Province. It is the biggest and most popular holiday resort of the country, and is home to over 200 hotels with more than 110 000 beds. There are also 130 restaurants and numerous live music bars, pubs, nightclubs, discos, cafes. It has been undergoing continuous expansion for many years. In recent years almost the whole hotel base has been renovated and several new luxurious hotels have been built as well as many spectacular apartment complexes. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Sunnybeach-ngruev-1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Sunnybeach-ngruev-1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 142 pixelsFull resolution (4786 × 847 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 142 pixelsFull resolution (4786 × 847 pixel, file size: 1. ... For other uses, see Black Sea (disambiguation). ... Burgas (Bulgarian: , sometimes transliterated as Bourgas) is the second-largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast with population 205,821. ... Obshtina Nesebar ( Municipality of Nessebar ) takes the northern part of the Black Sea coast of the district of Burgas. ... Burgas Province or oblast (Bulgarian: Област Бургас) is located in southeastern Bulgaria, on the southern Black Sea coast. ... Resorts combine a hotel and a variety of recreations, such as swimming pools. ...

Sunny Beach has a very small permanent population, but during the summer the resort is home to many thousands of tourists. The main strip of high-rise hotels backing onto the beach is several kilometres long and extends along a wide bay between Sveti Vlas and Nesebar. “Tourist” redirects here. ... The bay at San Sebastián, Spain A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. ... Sveti Vlas (Bulgarian: , Saint Blaise) is a resort town on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, located in Nesebar municipality, Burgas Province. ... Nesebar (Bulgarian: Несебър, Nesebăr, though other transliterations are also used), previously known as Mesembria (Greek: Μεσημβρια, Mesimvria) and before that as Menebria, is an ancient city on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, located in Nesebar municipality, Burgas Province. ...

The resort's construction began back in Communist times, in 1958. Construction works began at a site, where two old wells supplying Nesebar with water in ancient times and during the Middle Ages, had been located. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The climate of the area is Mediterranean, explaining Sunny Beach's popularity with tourists since before the fall of communism. Since that time the resort's popularity has grown among German holidaymakers, who add to the already large numbers of Bulgarian and Russian visitors. More recently, Sunny Beach has begun to attract the attention of British , Scandinavian and Serbian tourists, for whom it is a more affordable alternative to the established Mediterranean resorts.  Areas with Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate is a climate that resembles the climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin. ... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ... Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

Attractions for tourists include the beach, watersports, nightlife, and the nearby historical site of Nesebar. Sunny Beach is mainly popular among young people. The Golden Orpheus International Festival of Popular Song, the Decade of Symphonic Music, part of the International Folklore Festival, fashion-shows and various beach competitions are held there. For other uses, see Beach (disambiguation). ... Water sport most commonly refers to a sport which is played in the water. ... Nightlife is the collective term for any entertainment that is available and more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning. ...

Housing in Sunny Beach has been heavily favoured by British and Irish property investors in recent years. However, Sunny Beach, like other resorts on the Balkan Coast of Bulgaria has suffered from mis-selling of apartments to overseas investors, with poor quality and a large oversupply due to low levels of demand due from tourists due to the availability of reasonably priced hotels. The property market there is still very corrupt and influenced by organised crime; because the overseas property industry is unregulated this has meant foreign purchasers are easy prey. The result of these unfortunate circumstances are that property prices are now falling, and there is little prospect of investors selling their investments for a profit. High levels of investors are now trying to bail out, having lost tens of thousands of pounds.

References

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External links

• A Personal Guide To Sunny Beach