Below ground level just behind the Sveti Spas Church are the partly excavated remains of a 6th-century Byzantine baths complex. Though not much to look at now, in its day this was one of the region’s biggest and best spas, renowned for its curative waters; allegedly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV dropped by and ‘cured his legs’ here in 680. The baths were destroyed during Han Krum’s invasion in AD 812.
Byzantine Baths
Black Sea Coast