Euxinograd

Euxinograd ( , also transliterated as Evksinograd) is a late 19th-century Bulgarian former royal summer palace and park on the Black Sea coast, north of downtown Varna. The palace is currently a governmental and presidential retreat, hosting cabinet meetings in the summer and offering access for tourists to several villas and hotels. Since 2007, it is also the venue of the Operosa opera festival. Euxinograd is situated at an altitude of 49 m. The park and palace were closed until the summer of 2016 due to extensive renovations.

==History== left|thumb|The interior Construction of the palace began soon after the Greek bishopric presented the site to Knyaz Alexander Battenberg, the reigning Prince of Bulgaria, on 16 March 1882. At the time the land was occupied by two small monasteries: St. Demetrius and St. Constantine; these were subsequently converted into the first royal residence on the site. This conversion followed plans drawn up by the Viennese architect Viktor Rumpelmayer in 1885. Initially, the palace was named Sandrovo, after the Italian diminutive of Alexander's name—Sandro. Later the knyaz extended the estate to its current area of . However, no further building work took place.