Balchik is situated on three terraces. According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, the town was built on a far earlier ancient settlement that dates back 6-8 millennia. Records of early Dionysopolis were stored in a stone tablet from 49 BC, which commemorates the town history from the distant antiquity. There are as many as 122 objects of immovable cultural values and monuments. Also known as the White Town, this unique place had preserved traces of our ancestors since time immemorial, where different civilizations left their cultural, ethnical and religious marks.