The town of Kiten is smaller than the nearby Primorsko with its population less than 1,000 people according to latest data. The town is situated on a small peninsula at the south end of the Primorsko Bay, 56km south of Bourgas.
Just a year ago Kiten was a resort village. But it was among the most fast growing resort villages on the Black Sea coast and a basic tourist centre, which made the change in its administrative statute inevitable. Each season it becomes more and more popular and attracts more and more foreign and Bulgarian tourists.
Nowadays Kiten is a prosperous modern tourist town with a number of private lodgings, cozy hotels, restaurants, snack-bars, discos, amusement park, water slides and playgrounds. The north beach, called Atliman with calm and clean sea is covered with fine golden sand and is protected from storms. The south beach is bigger and abuts the Kiten River, which is rich in fish.
The present-day village lies over the ruins of the Urdoviza Fortress situated on the cape itself. The Romans called the settlement 'Oroudiza'. The settlement was abandoned at the time of Bulgaria's fall under Turkish domination and was re-inhabited only after the Liberation. The village was founded in 1931 by fugitives from Greece but it has developed into a tourist destination only after 1970.
A legend tells that the beautiful lace Stana of Urdoviza agreed to marry the Sultan only in exchange for exempting the land, which she managed to ride through from sunrise to sunset, from taxes. The Sultan kept his word and exempted the area around the village, which is still called Hasekiya (meaning 'tax exempted land'). The name of the nearby bay of Atliman (meaning 'the horse's bay') also comes from this legend, as the horse, which Stana rode, was exhausted to death when they arrived to this bay at sunset.
Besides the steep end of the rocky cape, one can feast his/her eyes on the river of Karaagach, which flows into the sea at the southern part of the Urdoviza Bay. The marsh mouth of the river is full of fish. One can also take a few hours' walk by the river up to its spring in the almost virgin nature of the Strandzha mountain.