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Euxinograd ((ブルガリア語:Евксиноград) (:ɛfˈksinoɡrat), 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.〔(Euxinograd Altitude and Location )〕 The park and palace are closed until the summer of 2016 due to extensive renovatons ==History== Construction of the palace began soon after its site was prented to Knyaz Alexander Battenberg by the Greek bishopric 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 was constructed to plans drawn 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 was carried out. The palace, as it is today, was constructed during the reign of Knyaz (later Tsar) Ferdinand. The pediment and other materials from the right wing of Château de Saint-Cloud in France, a former French royal residence, were brought to Bulgaria by Ferdinand and integrated into his new palace. Ferdinand commissioned Swiss architect Hermann Mayer and Bulgarian architect Nikola Lazarov to complete the design of the palace. In 1893, on the insistence of Princess Marie Louise, Ferdinand's first wife, the palace was renamed ''Euxinograd'' - the name derives from the Ancient Greek term for the Black Sea, (''Euxeinos Pontos'', "hospitable sea") and the South Slavic suffix ''–grad'', meaning "town" or, historically, "fortress". Tsar Ferdinand's second wife, Tsaritsa Eleonore, died in Euxinograd on 12 September 1917. Following the abolition of the monarchy in Bulgaria, the result of a referendum held under the auspices of the Communists in 1946, Euxinograd became a summer residence of the then-Communist authorities. The democratic changes in 1989 made the former royal palace a presidential and governmental residence and it was opened to the public. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Euxinograd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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