SVETI VLAS

St. Vlas (Sveti Vlas) is a small town of a resort type located on the Black sea coast in the southeastern part of Bulgaria. It is close to Sunny Beach (5 km) and 10 km from Nessebar.

Nearby is Elenite resort (4 km), reserve Kamchia and Cape Emine. Sofia is located 420 km from Sveti Vlas, Plovdiv is about 302 km, Varna about 91 km and 40 km Burgas.

Sveti Vlas is located at the foot of the southern slopes of the Balkan mountain range and at the same time on the Black Sea coast.

The climate is favorable for treatment of lung diseases, because of the combination of the sea and mountain. 1 km from St. Vlas is located the Sea sanatorium.

The beach of St. Vlas is about 1.5 km long, with fine and golden sand. Autumn here is long and warm, the winter is short and there are at least 1600 hours of sunshine.

St. Vlas was founded by the Thracians under the name of Larissa during II c., making it one of the oldest settlements in the municipality of Nessebar.

Modern construction in St. Vlas can be divided into two periods - up to 2000 and after 2000.

By 2000, family residential houses with 2, 3 floors were built. Since 2000, the construction on agricultural land begun, across the road towards the beach. The "Bor" street was built to the complex Sun Palace. Today, this street is continued in east-west direction by organizing the majority of modern construction of first and second line from the beach.

Modern construction is dense and there is no specific style in the resort. In the modern part of the city there is a tendency to built in Bulgarian style "monasteries".