Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(ul Maria Luisa 41; adult/student 10/2 lv; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun Apr-Sep, 10am-5pm
Tue-Sat Oct-Mar; 3, 9, 109)
Exhibits at this vast museum, the best of its kind in Bul-
garia, include 6500-year-old bangles, necklaces and earrings - said to be the oldest
worked gold found anywhere in the world - Roman surgical implements, Hellenistic
tombstones and touching oddments such as a marble plaque listing, in Greek, the names
of the city's school graduates for AD 221.
Roman Thermae
(cnr ul Han Krum & ul San Stefano; adult/student 4/2 lv; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun May-
Oct, 10am-5pm Tue-Sat Nov-Apr)
The well-preserved ruins of Varna's 2nd-century-AD
Roman Thermae are the largest in Bulgaria, although only a small part of the original
complex still stands. You can just about make out individual bathing areas and the fur-
naces, where slaves kept the whole thing going.
ANCIENT SITE
History Museum
(ul 8 Noemvri 3; adult/child 4/2 lv; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun May-Oct, 10am-5pm Mon-Fri
Nov-Apr; 20)
Varna's ivy-covered History Museum is dedicated to city history
between 1878 and 1939, with mock-ups of long-gone 1920s shops and offices, collections
of photographs and postcards, and paraphenalia from local trades like brewing and print-
ing.
MUSEUM
National Naval Museum
(bul Primorski 2; admission 5 lv; 10am-6pm Wed-Sun)
The National Naval Museum
hosts several galleries of model ships and uniforms. Anchors, artillery and helicopters can
be seen rusting quietly in the grounds at the back, while the revered warship
Druzki,
which torpedoed a Turkish cruiser during the First Balkan War in 1912, is embedded in
concrete outside.
MUSEUM
