The town of Kavarna has a population of 11 000 inhabitants and is situated at a distance of 52 km east of the town of Dobrich. The town is a centre of a municipality with 20 component settlements. It is situated in the most eastern part of the Danube Valley and the Dobrudzha Coast.

The town is the successor of the Thracian settlement Bizone. Bizone has been founded in V c. B C. It has been a trade and agrarian centre with Thracian and Greek population. During the I c B.C. the town is demolished by a powerful earthquake and is later restored during Roman times. The settlement is described under the name of Kavarna for the first time in XIV c. and is well-known by the Venetian and Genoa sailors who traded along the Bulgarian lands. The conquering of the lands by the Turks at the end of XIV c. is related to mass destruction of fortresses and movement of people to safer areas so many Bulgarians settled on the territory of the present-day town. In XIX c. the town has been a thriving craftsman's centre and a port.

The tourist sights of the town are: the history museum, the ethnographic museum, the church "St. Georgi", the church "Uspenie Bogorodichno" /The Assumption/, the holiday village Russalka, cape Kaliakra, the national archaeological reserve Yailata, cape Chirakman and others.

Tourist sights

The History Museum in Kavarna is situated in the building of a medieval bath which has been restored. Visitors of the museum can see amphorae, stone anchors, coins and other objects found in the region.

The Ethnographic Museum in Kavarna has an exhibition representing the lifestyle of the typical Kavarna family from the end of XIX c. It is located in a restored building.

The Archaeological reserve "Kaliakra" lies at a distance of 12 m southeast of Kavarna. Kaliakra is a rocky cape jutting out 2 km in the sea and with a height of 60-70 m. It is the longest cape along the Bulgarian coast. The cape is of hard limestone and conglomerate. The ferriferous oxides colour the cape in crimson. The name of the site has been changed a lot during the centuries. Its inaccessibility has become the reason for an ancient fortress to be built on the site. The ancient Thracians called it Tirizis. During the Roman Empire it is called Akra, while during the Byzantine time Akres Kastelum. The cape gets its present-day name during the reign of the Bulgarian ruler Dobrotitza. It is mentioned with this name for the first time in XIII c. It means a good and nice cape. In 1444 the troops of Vladislav Varnenchik reach cape Kaliakra on their march against the Ottoman Empire. The most popular legend for cape Kaliakra is that of 40 maidens who in order to escape from the Turkish invaders wove their hairs together and jumped into the sea. There is a monument of these maidens on the cape called "The gate of the forty maidens"

Yailata is a national archaeological reserve. It is a seaside terrace separated from the Dobrudzha Plateau by 50-60 m of rocky massifs. On its territory there are numerous monuments of different historic epochs. 101 cave dwellings, three necropolises dug in the rocky massif and an early- Byzantine fortress are discovered in the region.

Russalka is a holiday village at a distance of 20 km east of Kavarna in the unique natural reserve "Ptichia zaliv"/Birds' Bay/ . Russalka is a beautiful rocky site with fine beach sand, a small firth with healing mud and a hot mineral water spring. The resort is built in 1968. The village has small holiday houses located in amphitheatrically arranged groups.