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Nessebar is famous resort town located on the Black Sea. It combines ancient history and modern amenities of larger resorts.

The old town of Nessebar has a length of only 850 and width of 350 meters, but it is a real historical and cultural heritage. Black Sea over the centuries took about a third of its territory. But remnants of the western wall with a gate, the churches from V-VI century and later by X-XIV century, works of exquisite medieval Bulgarian and Byzantine architecture, and more than 60 National Revival houses, grouped in several ensembles, are the reason the city be declared by UNESCO as a monument of world significance.

Many are names that this peninsula bore over the centuries: Messambria, Messembria and later Nessebar. It was settled more than three millennia - in the late Bronze Age. One of the main reasons for this are its convenient natural harbors, where they found a large number of stone anchors from the XII-IX century BC - evidence of active navigation of the townspeople of the time.

If you want to learn more about this great city for a short time, it is best to visit the archaeological museum and see the exhibition "Nessebar centuries", built in four rooms. At the first of them - "Messambria and Thrace", except the aforementioned anchors, you can see many remnants of the life of Thracians: sivocherni pottery with incised Mouldings from IX-VI century BC, very important inscription in honor of the Sadala chief of III century BC, and large silver coins treasure of tetradrahms.

The second room of the museum presents the polis of Messembria Pontica, which was ruled by a council elected by a parliament. From this period are found many findings: honorary decrees in honor of prominent personalities, praising their noble deeds, religious sculpture, marble tombstones and votive on which are depicted scenes from the life of the local people, four extremely rare bronze vessels - so-called hydrii used as funeral urns and terracotta figurines - deities, graceful and elegant ladies, with whom local residents decorated their homes.

At the third room are preserved artifacts from the time when the town was held by Rome, Byzantium and Bulgaria. Here you can see ceramic vessels covered with red lacquer, gravestones, votive reliefs of Hercules and the Thracian Horseman, columns, capitals and pedestals. From the first Bulgarian inhabitants of the peninsula remained gray pottery, a collection of amphorae and pottery from white clay that links the city with during the IX-XII century. During the XIII and XIV century, the city is on the rise and that is the time when the great medieval churches are built and many sculptors, potters and painters are employed to decorate them.

The fourth hall is of great interest. There are exhibited an impressive collection of icons from the XIII to XIX century, to decorate the iconostasis of the numerous churches of Nessebar. You can see an episcopal throne and church plate.

In 2009 the museum was enriched by a priceless collection of ornaments weighing 200 grams - a real treasure, found in building a house in the new part of Nesebar, in a noble tomb of an unknown female, that lived in the Greek colony in the middle of the III century BC . Besides the rich gold jewelry inlaid with stones - a necklace, bracelet, rings embedded with gems and beads, in the grave were found also pottery, bronze mirrors and other small metal objects.