Ancient City of Nessebar / Nesebyr My Fav Spot

Ancient City of Nessebar

Nesebyr

Neseber is an ancient town in Bulgaria, near Burgas on Black Sea peninsula. The beginnings of settlement by Thracian tribe date back to about a thousand years before our era. It originally bore the name Mesambria. Currently Nessebar has expanded from a small settlement, later became a fortified stronghold. The biggest boom came in the fifth century BC. The city walls were erected policies in V-VI BC on solid rock. The city became one of the richest commercial centers. In the following centuries Nesebar was incorporated into the Roman Empire, then at the time of Turkish influence there has been a flourishing again where he was regarded as a bridge between East and West (IV AC). Successive Turkish raids the ages, Burgundy and Hungarian and Turkish again. Nessebar is a small but charming town, with its narrow streets, lectured paving stones, small squares, low houses, a characteristic design consisting of stone ground floor and a wooden floors, often protruding above the street, with windows full of flowers, hanging above the street. Most of the buildings in the old town comes from the XI-XIV and almost all the temples built in the style of orthodox church. There are many churches (the highest number of churches per capita) eg. Church of St Sophia or the Old Bishopric (5th–6th century), Basilica of the Holy Mother of God Eleusa (6th century), Church of John the Baptist (11th century), Church of St Stephen (11th century; reconstructed in the 16th–18th century), Church of Christ Pantocrator (13th–14th century) and others. Neseber is included by UNESCO in its list of World Heritage Sites.

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