Some of the sand is pulled by currents from as far away as the Mediterranean, flowing through the Bosphorus and Dardenelles. There are dozens of attractive resorts on the Black Sea Riviera. St Constantine Resort is Bulgaria's oldest Black Sea spa, centred on the Grand Hotel Varna, the largest and most luxurious hotel on the Riviera. Golden Sands , Bulgaria's second-largest resort, has good facilities and probably the best nightlife on the Black Sea Riviera. Sunny Day offers a wide range of beauty and health treatments in two of its four hotels.
Sunny Beach is a large purpose-built family resort with beautiful and safe beaches.
Close to Sunny Beach is the 7th-century fishing village of Old Nessebur with its wooden fishermen's houses and its famed four dozen Byzantine churches. The Black Sea port town of Burgas has a Maritime Park and an extensive beach.