Silistar

Overview

Silistar is a bay on our Black Sea coast. Due to the deep bay, the water is almost always calm, in summer it is warm and very clean. The beach is about 1 km long and about 50 m wide and is covered with golden sand.

For lovers of swimming, the shore is very pleasant and smoothly passes into the depths, and divers should be careful with the underwater caves, there is a possibility of vortices. The beach is one of the favorite surfing spots on our Black Sea coast.

Since 1992, Silistar Park has been declared a Silistar Protected Area. It falls on the territory of Strandzha Nature Park, is guarded and controlled by the employees of the state forestry and the municipal administration in Tsarevo and the Strandzha Nature Park Directorate. Silistar is part of the Strandzha protected areas for the protection of wild birds and natural habitats. Rare and protected birds such as bald eagle, black stork, holly dove and others nest on the dunes and rocks around.

During the Middle Ages there was a settlement with a port, which continued to function until the end of the 18th century.