Welcome to the town of Sozopol - one of the most famous and beautiful antique Bulgarian towns. Its existence goes back to 610 year B.C., when Greeks from the Anatolian cities Milet and Fokea settled here and formed a town named Apolonia Pontika. Within next few centuries Apolonia made an enormous contribution to the interesting history of the West Black Sea coast. The town grew and developed from the trade and Thracians vocations and became trade and commercial center in the southeast Balkan Peninsula. These successful years were followed by centuries of wars with the 510 year B.C. founded Mesemvria, nowadays known as the town of Nesebar. Since 520 year B.C. the polis Apolonia, first in the Black Sea west coast area, started to coin - by that time the coins were called obols, drahmes and tetradrahmes.

Within the fatal 72nd year B.C., the Roman leader Mark Lukul conquered the lands of present Bourgas region, and sacked and burned down Apolonia. Later on the town was rebuilt, but never reached its former sublimity. Next name, the town was mentioned with, is dating from the year 431 – Sozopolis (coming from Greek - The salvation town). In 681 when khan Asparuh established the Bulgarian country, Sozopol became the part of the Bulgarian territory. But like number of other villages near the border with Byzantium the town changed its territorial position between Bulgaria and Byzantium very often. Sozopol was under Turkish domination since April 1453 year. In Turkish documents from XV-XIX century it was stated, that Sozopol is big Christian town with abt 5000 citizens – the 3rd biggest town after Varna and Anhialo. After the Bulgaria liberation from Turkish yoke (1877-1878), Sozopol had about 4400 citizens with fishery as their main occupation.

Since the year of 1926 Sozopol has started the tradition of summer tourism.

Today Sozopol is a modern and cultural town, worldwide known sea-resort and tourist place, located on the enchantingly beautiful Black Sea coast, only 31 km south of the town of Bourgas where is the biggest port of Bulgaria.