THE PALACE.........1 KM.WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT BALCHIK WE UNDOUBTEDLY THINKABOUT THE PALACE THE FORMAL SUMMER RESIDENCEOF THE ROMANIAN QUEEN MARIA AND THE BOTANICALGARDEN.HISTORICAL MUSEUM.....1.5 KMBALCHIK HISTORY IS DISPLAYED CHRONOLOGICALLY INTHREE HALLS FROM THE FOUNDATION IN THE 6TH C BCTILL THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH C.REVIVAL COMPLEX.....1 KM.IT IS A RATHER INTERESTING SIGHT INCLUDES ACHURCH ST. NIKOLA BUILT IN 1866 AND A REVIVALSCHOOL FROM THE SAME PERIOD. THE COMPLEX IS NOWRENOVATED BY THE PROJECT BEAUTIFUL BULGARIA.THIS IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL HISTORICAL PLACEAFTER THE PALACE.ETHNOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM........................2KM.THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM IS DISPLAYED IN ABEAUTIFUL RESTORED HOUSE THAT ONCE BELONGED TO AWEALTHY LOCAL CORN MERCHANT. IT SHOWS THE COZYATMOSPHERE OF TYPICAL VILLAGE AND TOWN GUESTROOMS OF THE END OF THE 19 TH CENTURY.ART GALLERY................................1.5KM.IS A FIRST ART GALLERY IN SOUTH DOBRUDZA AND ISSITUATED IN A NICE BUILDING ERECTED IN THEBEGINNING OF 20 CENTURY. IT EXPOSES MODERNBULGARIAN ART AND ORGANIZES VARIOUS EXHIBITIONS.CHURCH ST. GEORGI............................1KM.THE CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1895 1897. IS SITUATED INTHE CENTER OF THE TOWN AND HAS ONE OF THE MOSTBEAUTIFUL ALTARS IN DOBRUDZA, THE ICONS ARE THEGIFTS OF THE CITIZENS. THE CHURCH IS IN A LIST OFPROTECTED MONUMENTS.CHURCH ST. PETKA..............................3KMIT IS SITUATED IN THE NEW TOWN. THE CONSTRUCTIONSTARTED IN 1935 BY ROMANIAN AUTHORITIES, BUT ONLYIN 1954 IT WAS FINISHED AND CONSECRATED.CHURCH ST. ELENA GREEK CHURCH.............1.5KMIT IS SITUATED IN FRONT OF THE ART GALLERY AND ISNOW USED FOR CONCERTS. ALSO FOR SUMMER OPERASTUDIO.TEKETO RELIGIOUS CULT MONUMENT OBROCHOSHTEVILLAGE......................................14KMBUILT IN THE 16TH CENTURY WITH ITS ORIGINALARCHITECTURE IT IS UNIQUE ON THE BALKANS. THEMONASTERY WAS VISITED BY BOTH MUSLIMS ANDCHRISTIANS AT THE SAME TIME.B