The Conference will be held in Sozopol – is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of the city of Bourgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The town of Sozopol is the oldest of Bulgaria’s coastal towns. Founded in 610 BC by Miletian Greeks, their colony of Apollonia thrived as a middleman between the Greek world and the indigenous Thracians. Today, this charming place is a popular tourist resort best known for its casual ambiance, two sandy beaches, and distinctive nineteenth-century stone and wood houses.

Sozopol’s archaeological museum features a collection of amphorae, stone anchors, and model ships representative of the Phoenicians, Cypriots and other ancient mariners who sailed into Apollonia harbour. Relative to the old town, the new town is somewhat colourless although it does feature the better of Sozopol’s beaches, located on the southern side of the Harmanite ("threshing-floor") headland. On 28 June 2010 parts of St. John the Baptist’s relics have been discovered during archaeological excavations in the Sv. Ivan (St. John) island off Sozopol – an exquisite reliquary – a relic urn – built in the altar of an ancient church bearing the name of St. John the Baptist.