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The Sea Garden in Varna
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Ioana on 09/08/2010 21:08:00
 
The Sea Garden is the Bulgarian opening metropolis of Varna's most significant
and most well-known open public recreational areas, also said to be the greatest
landscaped recreation area in the Balkans. Situated alongside the city's
shoreline on the Black Sea, it is an essential tourist destination and a
countrywide monument of scenery structures.
The person primarily connected and considered as having done most for the
garden's contemporary visual appeal is the Czech garden enthusiast Anton Novák,
who had specialized at the Schönbrunn and Belvedere palaces in Vienna,
Austria-Hungary. He was asked to operate in Varna by his compatriot Karel
Škorpil at the request of the municipality in 1894 and came in 1895, at the age
of 35. One of Varna's best known structures, the Varna Aquarium, was created in
the back garden in 1906-1911.
Throughout his time in Varna, Novák did a tremendous work: he radically
rearranged the garden and ordered the planting of highly valued plants from the
Black Sea and the Mediterranean. His contract with the municipality was extended
in 1899, when he was constructed a residence still ranking next to the entry to
the garden. The garden progressively grew to reach 90,000 m² in 1905. A number
of water features were added in 1912-1913, as well as in some measure electric
lighting. The middle alley was furnished with monuments of well known Bulgarians
by a special committee. The seaside casino was built in the 1930s and purchased
its contemporary visual appeal after a refurbishment in 1960-1961.
The 1930s saw the planting of varieties coming from the Netherlands, Germany,
the Czech Republic and France, as well as the development of nursery gardens.
The garden was widened to the south to achieve the house of the Italian consul
Assaretto, nowadays the Varna Naval Museum. The garden achieved its present
edges in the 1950s and the trees in the centre of the main alley were replaced
with flower beds in the 1960s, which thus achieved 20,000 m² in the whole Sea
Garden. In 1939, the architect Georgi Popov developed the garden's contemporary
central entry with a wide plaza and tall columns.
An Alley of Cosmonauts was organized in the 1960s, with the first cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin growing the first seed, a silver fir, on 26 May 1961 ahead of a
large crowd. The Pantheon of the Perished in the Fight against Fascism was
assembled in the exact same year.
For travelers, the Observatory and Planetarium were exposed in 1968 on the site
of the old open-air theatre and the Varna Zoo was inaugurated in 1961. A
swan-shaped sundial was mounted in front of the main front door. The current
open-air theatre, flanked by the Alpineum and the children's enjoyment park, is
the location of the Varna International Ballet Competition since its creation in
1964, and the dolphinarium was constructed in 1984. Not long ago, the Exotic Zoo
terrarium was extra, and plans for enlargement of the Natural History Museum and
the Aquarium were introduced. The Sea Gardens are appropriate for the comforting
vacationers who are looking for some solitude while appreciating great vistas as
well.