Tsar Kaloyan, ruler of Bulgaria from 1196–1207 and one of its greatest leaders, is commemorated in Varna by an 8-meter-high monument in the city center.
The monument to Tsar Boris III (1918-1943), Bulgaria’s last ruling Tsar, stands in central Varna behind the District Court on Maria Luisa Blvd. It features a bronze bas-relief on pink granite.
Two monuments in Varna honor Khan Asparoukh: a bust near the “Prosveta 1927” Library and a warrior statue by Asparuh’s Rampart, accessible via the seaside alley in Asparuhovo.
The Monument to the Fallen of the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885 is the only memorial highlighting the active participation of Varna’s 8th Coastal Infantry Regiment.
The Portal-Monument to Varna’s 8th Coastal Infantry Regiment is unique in the Balkans, honoring a single regiment, with the names of 2,850 fallen officers and soldiers engraved in gold on 42 slabs.
Karel and Hermengild Shkorpil, founders of Varna’s and Bulgarian archaeology, were the first to accurately document many of Bulgaria’s archaeological sites and monuments.
The Park-Memorial of Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship, originally a monument to the Soviet Army, stands atop Turna Tepe in northern Varna. At 23 m high and 48 m wide, it is the largest in the area.
The monument to the victims of communism in Varna stands on Slivnitsa Blvd., in the city garden before the Art Gallery. It is the second such monument in Bulgaria.
The bust-monument of the great revolutionary Stefan Karadzha is to be seen at the crossroad of "Knyaz Boris I" and the "Slivnitsa" Boulevards. It was inaugurated on November the 10th 1940.
Developed in the early 20th century, the Varna Alley of the Bulgarian National Revival in the Sea Garden features 22 monuments to key figures of the National Revival and Liberation periods.
Located in Varna’s Sea Garden near the Pantheon, the alley was unveiled on November 1, 2001. Thirty black marble plaques are arranged in two facing rows, with soil from historic Bulgarian sites beneath them.
The Alley of Cosmonauts near Varna’s Pantheon once followed a unique tradition: visiting Russian cosmonauts planted conifer trees, starting with Yuri Gagarin on May 26, 1961.
The monument to sculptor Kiril Shivarov, created by Prof. Plamen Bratanov, was inaugurated in December 2015 and stands in the city garden next to Rakovski High School of Trade.
Architect Dabko Dabkov, who designed over 200 iconic buildings in Varna, is depicted in this statue sitting on a bench near the Mussala Hotel, which he designed.
The Graf Ignatiev monument, between the Drama Theater and the Filial stage, features a granite base with inscriptions, a bronze bust, and his family coat of arms on the front.
Captain Petko Voyvoda (1844–1900) was a 19th-century Bulgarian hajduk leader and national revolutionary who devoted his life to the liberation of Bulgaria, especially Thrace.
The monument is a bronze bust mounted on a grey granite base, with a total height of 2.50 m. It is currently located in front of the Architects’ House.
The monument to the fallen British soldiers in 1854 is located on the corners of “Knyaz Boris I” Blvd. and “Naiden Gerov” Str., in the small city garden near Varna National School of Arts.
In Varna there are two monuments commemorating the French soldiers. There were inaugurated in honour of the 5 183 French soldiers who died from cholera in 1854 and 1855.
Inaugurated on October 20, 2020, the monument was donated by the Consulate of the Republic of India to mark the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth.
The monument to Anton Novak, near the University of Economics in the Sea Garden, honors the Czech landscape architect who designed the Sea Garden, Asparuhov Park, and other green areas of Varna.
