The Quiet Nest Palace in Balchik, Bulgaria

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The Quiet Nest Palace in Balchik is known as Queen Maria's summer residence. Maria, the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania, was so impressed by the beauty of the Black Sea shore in Balchik, that she ordered to build a summer villa there. It was constructed in 1920s. 
Queen Maria's Palace
Tourists can find the residence approximately 2 km south-west of Balchik in a beautiful locality between the Balchik rocks and the sea. The place represents an architectural park complex. Take a long walk around the Botanical Garden where you can see a few residential villas, an Orthodox church, a wine cellar, a holy spring, a chapel, a bridge of sighs, Roman baths and many other interesting objects.
Old Roman baths
There is a great opportunity to enjoy watching various ships, waves hugging the rocks, picturesque rose gardens and Kaliakra Point (Cape Kaliakra) alluring you at the distance.

Rose Garden and the view on Kaliakra Point
In the garden there is one huge tree called 'poplar', it is really of astonishing size and age. When I first saw it I pronounced "Surely this tree remembers even Queen Maria!" I cannot tell you the exact parameters, however, its height might be 10 meters and its trunk is hardly embraced by 4 adult people.  

The old poplar and a tourist
Inside of Maria's Palace you will not see any luxury things as in common European palaces. Don't foreget it is just a villa with a high-flown title "palace". Two floors with four rooms are open for keen travellers there. Look at door-hands carefully. The beauty of this place in its tiny details. Mind the lamps and cupboards, writing-tables and the bed. The bathroom is also worth seeing if you a fan of marble equipment.

Queen Maria's Room
Luckily there are no such crowds of tourists as in Palace of Versailles where you have to flow like a fish after other "fish" along fabulous rooms and to enjoy the view of them only in your photographs afterwards. According to the guid's words, there is some hope that there would be more exhibits in the nearest future. 
A view from the bridge of sighs

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