The town of 40 churches
Nessebar is a museum-town on a rocky peninsula connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus. The old town covers 27 hectares and has been on the UNESCO list since 1983. It lies 37 km north-east of Burgas and 420 km east of Sofia.
The town has two parts: the Old Town on the peninsula — a pedestrian zone with cobbled lanes, churches and Revival-era timber-framed houses — and the New Town on the mainland, with hotels, restaurants and beaches. Nessebar is the seat of the municipality, whose population exceeds 30,000.
Nessebar is on the UNESCO list for its exceptional concentration of monuments from over three millennia: Thracian Mesembria (6th c. BC), Roman baths, Byzantine and mediaeval Bulgarian churches, an Ottoman mosque and a Revival-era urban fabric.