BALCHIK

Balchik is a small coastal town in northeastern Bulgaria, the administrative center of Balchik municipality in Dobrich district. It is located in the middle parts of the northern Bulgarian Black Sea coast, near the resort of Albena.
Significant landmarks in Balchik are the architectural and park complex "Balchik Palace", consisting of a complex of villas, built in the period 1924 - 1934 as a summer residence of the Romanian Queen Maria of Edinburgh in the southernmost point of the newly occupied lands and established in 1955. by Academician Daki Yordanov Botanical Garden, covering today an area of 194 acres.