The Salt Museum in Pomorie was visited by over 16,000 tourists

The Salt Museum in Pomorie was visited by over 16,000 tourists last year. This became clear during the visit of the Minister of Tourism Assoc. Prof. Stela Baltova in the museum. The number of tourists increases every year. By comparison, in 2015 it was visited by over 15,000 persons. Half of the tourists were Bulgarians.

The director of the Museum of History in the town Anton Karabashev informed the minister that there was an enormous interest in the site by Russians, Germans, British nationals, Czechs, Poles, etc. The visiting groups of students increase.

The Salt Museum in Pomorie is one of the one hundred national tourist sites in Bulgaria. It was opened on 7 September 2002 with the financial support of the European Union through the PHARE Programme. This is the only specialised Salt Museum in Eastern Europe. It consists of an exhibition hall and 20 dca of outdoor salt-pans, where salt is still being produced. It is located in the town of Pomorie itself, on the shores of Pomoriisko lake.