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Extract from the Balchik Travel Guides:
Occupying a succession of sandy cliffs and crumbling sugar-loaf hills,
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's whitewashed cottages hover precipitously above a series of ravines running down to the sea. It's the kind of scene beloved of artists, and Balchik-inspired seascapes are a regular sight in provincial galleries throughout Bulgaria. Founded by the Milesians in the sixth century BC and named Krounoi ("The Springs"), the town was a valued haven for Greek merchants attempting to pass the treacherous waters around Cape Kaliakra, as well as an important centre for viniculture - hence its later name, Dionysopolis, honouring the god of the vine. By the six...
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