Customs of Vasiliko, Tsarevo

The town of Tsarevo is mentioned with the name Vasiliko first by the Arabic geographer Idrissi in the 12th century. We encounter the same name in documents from Genoa in the 14th century, in official tax registers of the kaza (administrative division historically used in the Ottoman Empire) Anhialos in 17th-18th century, and on a map of General Hatov from 1828.

An archaeological survey in 2012 in the area of ​​the church "St. Assumption" in the old town shows unequivocally that there was a settlement from a much earlier period. On the coast of the Tsarevo municipality ships have been docked since the I millennium BC. In the 7th-5th century BC Greek ships started to navigate the waters of the Black Sea besides Thracian ones. At the time of the Greater Greek colonization, a number of Greek city-states emerged, and became food and commodity trade centers for the Eastern Mediterranean. Situated between two ancient settlements - Apollonia and Agathopolis, it is unlikely man would not settle the beautiful Tzarevo Beach and make full use of its natural resources.

In the area of the church “St. Assumption” archaeologists found cult pits from the classical and Hellenistic era, filled with Thracian and Greek ceramics. Structures from the 5th-6th centuries were attested, for which the remnants of the walls and the movable finds speak unambiguously. On a small cape, east of the temple, the Director of the District History Museum of Burgas - Milen Nikolov uncovered a small building. One of the suggestions is that the customs of Vasiliko had been built here at a later stage. The great economic power, which the sea gives, fully explains this assumption.

Located next to the emblematic for the town of Tzarevo church “St. Assumption” - one of the most beautiful temples on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, the site is accessible to visit all year round.

Tourist infrastructure: Possibility of accommodation in hotels and guest houses in the town of Tzarevo all year round.