About Sinemorets
Key facts about Sinemorets — around 400 permanent residents, part of Tsarevo municipality, set in the heart of Strandzha Nature Park, Bulgaria's largest protected area.
The village at Bulgaria's edge
Sinemorets is a small seaside village in Tsarevo municipality, 82 km south of Burgas and just 15 km north of the Turkish border. Perched on a high rocky shore at about 30 metres above sea level, the village looks out over the mouth of the Veleka river and a wide sandy beach to the north.
Sinemorets has around 400 permanent residents, but thousands of guests stay here in summer. The village lands lie entirely within Strandzha Nature Park — 1,161 km² of forests, rivers and protected ecosystems, of which Sinemorets is perhaps the most-visited gateway.
Sinemorets rose to wider fame after 2006, when the Bulgarian film "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner" made the Veleka mouth and the wild Strandzha landscape famous. Today the village is a popular summer destination for eco-tourists, nature lovers and families — from 1 June to 15 September the population grows tenfold.