The Sea Garden, or formally the Seaside Park is Varna’s biggest, oldest and most famous park, also a proud owner of the title: ‘’Largest landscaped park in the Balkans’’.Its vast size makes it possible for visitors to enter it by foot, personal vehicles, rent-a-car, taxi etc. There are parking spaces for your rented car in Varna located at each entrance. There is a small seaside road where you can enjoy the breeze in a convertible or lowered windows with your rented vehicle provided by My Rent a Car. Situated along the coast of the Black Sea,the Sea Garden is a vital tourist attraction and a national monument. 

The individual mostly credited with having designed the garden’s modern look is Anton Novák from Czechia, who had specialised at the Schönbrunn and Belvedere palaces in. His fellow countryman Karel Škorpil invited Novak to work in Varna and arrived in 1985. 

During his tenure in Varna Novák managed to do a lot of changes to the Sea garden itself: he made tremendous rearrangements  to the garden and planted species of plants from the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Over time the garden grew to an impressive size of 90,000 m² in 1905. A few fountains were added in the period 1912–1913, as well as partial electrification of the lighting. The central alley was enhanced with monuments of prominent Bulgarians by a special committee. The seaside casino was built in the 1930s and acquired its modern appearance after a partial restoration in 2020.

The 1930s saw the planting of species from the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic and France. The garden had a southern expansion to reach the house of the Italian consul which is nowadays the Varna Naval Museum. The park reached its current borders in the 1950s. The architect Georgi Popov designed the central entrance creating a walkway plaza and tall columns. 

The Pantheon of the Perished in the Fight Against Fascism was erected in 1961. An Alley of Cosmonauts was also created in the 1960s. The special guest that planted the inaugural plant was the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. He planted a silver fir on the 26th of May, 1961 in front of a large group of people. The Observatory and Planetarium opened gates in 1968 seven years after the Varna Zoo which opened doors in 1961. The dolphinarium was erected in 1984. Recently, the Exotic Zoo terrarium was added, and plans for expansion of the Natural History Museum and the Aquarium were announced. 

The site where today the Sea Garden stands was an open piece of land outside of the city walls. A small garden was created on the orders of the city’s Ottoman mayor in 1862 and after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, the then mayor Mihail Koloni proposed the creation of a city garden and a seaside park in 1881.