Saint George Pomorie  **** - Pomorie, Bulgaria

Pomorie is a town situated on southern Black sea coastal of Bulgaria on a narrow rocky peninsula at 3.5 km in the sea. It is located at 20km distance from Bourgas and 18km from Sunny Beach. The town is established in VI-V c. b.c. by Greek colonists from Sozopol (Apollonia) and its name has been Anhialo. The population has been formed mostly from Thracian, but that didn’t prevent the Greeks from developing a trade center on those lands. According to some historicists Anhielo in Greek means place near salty lake, others are saying that the meaning is place near water, near sea. Thereupon the second translation at 1934, Pomorie was chosen for the new name of the town.

The optimum location of the town near important roads pretty much guaranties its success while the salt lake located near by, determines the development the population’s means of livelihood- the salt extraction. Along with that also the fishing is developing because of the sea exposure, while the followers of Bakhus practiced the vine-growing, although it is not clear whether they were Thracian or Greek. Interesting fact in the history of the city is that Anhialo was in long constant hostility with other Greek colony – Messambria (Nessebar). The reason for this is that Anhielo is established by colonists from Apollonia (Sozopol), which was also in hostility with Messambria because of the homelands of the colonists. During the ages the town forms itself as one of the main towns on the Black sea coast, which on the other hand makes it attractive for the fighting during the Middle Ages Byzantium and Bulgarian empires. In the years of hostility between the two empires, Anhialo had entered the borders of both several times. Later during the Ottoman rule the town kept its importance as a trade and culture center and along with its wine and salt, the town also became famous with its thermal springs.

After the liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, Anhialo started to fall behind the quickly developing Bourgas and because of that it started to renew its means of livelihood as business activities, creating its new appearance as prospering trade and tourist’s center. Survivor after 25 centuries of multiple battles from antiquity till the middle ages, Anhielo starts its medical tourism development and its memories of the Romans, Byzantines, crusades and Ottomans raids are shown through archeological collection of museum exhibits. Its new name, Pomorie receives in 1934, when also its popularization as a tourist destination approximately started. The unique historical and culture monuments nowadays are Thracian dome tomb, museum of “Old Anhial’s salt-works, the churches “Hristos” (Christ) and “Sv. Bogorodica” (St. Mary mother of Jesus), the monastery “Sv Georgi” (St. George) and the architecture reserve “Old Pomorian houses”.

Despite the rich history of the town, the main attraction for the tourists is the mud healing baths. Nowadays Pomorie is one of the main Balneotherapic centers in Bulgaria as well as a splendid destination for summer holiday. The frontage of the town is covered with fine black sand, rich on iron. The composition of landmarks is filled by the protected areas of Byaloto Konche, Koriyata as well as the Pomorian Lake, from which the salt is extracted. The one of a kind “Salt Museum” has become like a symbol of the town and the Municipality’s Archeological Museum is like a diary of the 2500 years of history of Pomorie.

The neat houses, hiding between them charming cobblestone pavement streets and all that surrounded by romantic sea coastal boulevards, combined with wide frontage and modern balneotherapic procedures. That might be the picture which it prints in the mind of the town’s visitors. Pomorie can provide its guests with sterling terms for rest, sports activities and entertainment and rich culture calendar, whose main events are included in “National week of the sea”, they are: the festival “Sea of wine”, and the traditional “Yavorov days”, held more than 50 years.  

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