Sea Garden, Urban park in Burgas, Bulgaria.
Sea Garden is an urban park in Burgas, running along the Black Sea coast with walking paths, sculptures, and botanical plantings. It also contains a summer theatre, a marine casino, and a greenhouse with exotic plant collections.
Around 1910, architect Georgi Duhtev transformed a swampy coastal strip into an organized park, bringing in plant varieties from many parts of the world. The project was part of a wider effort to modernize Burgas during the early 20th century.
The park's name comes from its position along the Black Sea, and it is officially called Morska gradina in Bulgarian. Sculptures and busts of writers and actors stand among the trees, most made during Burgas's summer sculpture plein-airs; the Pushkin monument is by Petko Zadgorski. The Sand Sculpture Festival is held each year in the northern part, behind the riding stables.
The park is easy to reach on foot from Bogoridi Street, where a terrace looks out over the sea, the pier, and the port. The paths are flat and well laid out, so visitors can walk through at their own pace without any particular plan.
The old part of the Sea Garden, about a quarter of the park, is listed as a monument of landscape art. Its plant collection comes from Georgi Duhtev, the gardener appointed in 1910, who gathered species from every continent. A former municipal flower garden there was glazed as a greenhouse for exotic tropical plants.
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