Archaeological sites

The monastery on Djanavara Hill was one of the largest Early Christian complexes in Varna and the Northeastern Balkans, discovered in the early 20th century by archaeologist Hermann Škorpil.  

It is the largest preserved Roman basilica in ancient Odessos. Its artifacts, including impressive Roman mosaics and coins, are now kept in the Archaeological Museum in Varna.  

Near Varna, in the Sŭlzitsa (Karaach Teke) area, lie the remains of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin, dating to the 9th-10th centuries and among the largest in the Balkans.  

Asparuh’s Rampart is a surviving example of early Bulgarian border fortifications, believed to date to the 8th century and built to protect the low coastline from seaborne, likely Byzantine, attacks.

At today’s Evksinograd, 6 km north of Varna, a port on St. Yani cape existed from the 4th–6th c., later a medieval trading town, with only the port and fort remaining by the late Middle Ages.