Nothing has been announced. The EBU's host city statement said that details of the Eurovision Village, the EuroClub and the wider cultural programme "will be revealed in the coming weeks and months". As of today they have not been, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
What follows is therefore two separate things, clearly labelled: what these venues are, based on every recent contest, and where in Burgas they could plausibly go, based on the city's geography. The second part is informed guesswork and nothing more.
What a Eurovision Village is
The Village is the free, open, public heart of contest week. Every host city in recent memory has run one, typically for the whole week from the weekend before the first semi-final.
Expect, in general terms:
- Free entry, no ticket, no fan club membership.
- A large screen showing all three live shows, so you can watch the Grand Final with several thousand people even without a ticket.
- A stage with local acts, past Eurovision performers and appearances by that year's artists during the week.
- Food and drink stalls, usually with a strong local-produce element.
- Family-friendly daytimes, busier and louder evenings.
For most visitors who do not get an arena ticket, the Village is Eurovision week — and plenty of people who do have tickets spend more hours there than in the arena.
What a EuroClub is
The EuroClub is the evening venue: a club or large bar hosting the official after-parties, fan-club nights, delegation parties and DJ sets, running late every night of the week.
Access rules vary by year and are worth watching for. In recent contests entry has been limited to accredited press, delegations and members of the official fan network — sometimes with tickets released to the general public for specific nights. If getting in matters to you, follow the announcement when it comes rather than assuming.
Where in Burgas they might be
Burgas is unusually well suited to a Village, and anyone who lives here can name the candidates:
- The Sea Garden (Morska Gradina) — the long clifftop park along the entire seafront, with an existing open-air stage, the Summer Theatre, wide promenades and space for crowds. It is the natural home for a large outdoor event in this city, and it hosts most of the big ones already.
- Central Beach and the pier — directly below the Sea Garden, flat, huge, and already the venue for the city's summer concerts.
- Alexandrovska Street and the squares off it — the pedestrianised spine of the centre, good for smaller stages and street activity rather than one big crowd.
- Around the arena itself — the former military ground has open space, which some host cities have used for a fan zone adjacent to the venue.
For the EuroClub, the plausible candidates are the larger clubs in the centre and along the beach. There is no shortage of venues; there is simply no announcement.
None of the above is confirmed. We have listed it because the geography is useful for planning where you want to sleep, not because we have information nobody else does.
What this means for booking
Two practical points that hold regardless of where the Village lands:
- The centre and Lazur are the safe bet for fan events. Every plausible Village location is in or beside the Sea Garden, which both districts back onto. Izgrev and Slaveykov are the safe bet for the arena. You cannot be five minutes from both, so decide which of the two your week is really about — the neighbourhoods guide lays out the trade-off in full.
- Village hours run late. A free outdoor screening of the Grand Final finishes near midnight the same as the show does, and the transport problem is the same one described in getting to the arena.
How you will hear
When the Village, the EuroClub and the cultural programme are announced, they go on our updates page — dated, in two or three sentences, with a link to whoever announced it and a line on what it changes for visitors. That page has an RSS feed if you would rather not check.