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, located about 85 km south of Burgas and just 11 km north of the border with Turkey at the village of Rezovo. The village sits on a high rocky shore — the buildings in the central part are situated between roughly 5 and 30 m above sea level — and from the edge of the plateau there is a view of the mouth of the Veleka River and a wide sandy strip 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 gained wider fame after 2008, when the Bulgarian film "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner" by Stephan Komandarev — which made the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film — popularised the mouth of the Veleka and the wild Strandzha nature. Today the village is a sought-after summer destination for eco-tourists, nature lovers and families — from 1 June to 15 September the population grows many times over.