Sozopol

Sozopol is a small town on a rocky peninsula south of Burgas, founded as the Greek colony of Apollonia Pontica in the 7th century BC and retaining a well-preserved old quarter of 19th-century timber-frame houses on the headland. Narrow cobbled lanes connect two beaches on opposite sides of the peninsula, and the Archaeological Museum holds finds from the colonial period including the anchor of a 5th-century BC vessel. The town's profile from the sea, with its dense wooden houses against the open water, is among the most distinctive on the Bulgarian coast.