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The Scent of the Sea

Salt Pans Piran Hrastovlje Church Portorož Piran

Follow your nose

Trust your wishes. Your body deserves pampering. Your spirit longs for a new experience.

Go and find your own experience.

And go to the Sečovlje salt pans, like the birds; under the Strunjan cliff, like the sea; to a lively venue, like best musicians. The Green Mediterranean is a perfect combination of nature and culture. In the Sečovlje Salt Pans Landscape Park , you can learn about salt-making traditions while enjoying the scenery that attracts over two hundred species of birds. In Strunjan, looking at the highest flysch cliff in the Adriatic, you can appreciate the uniqueness of Slovenia's Green Mediterranean. In Piran , the birthplace of the famous violin virtuoso Guiseppe Tartini, you can experience the authenticity of past times at the summer music festival and other events. Various summer festivals in other cities and towns also offer a host of enjoyable experiences. World-class wellness centres in Portorož , Strunjan, and Koper offer a wide variety of treatments, from thermal mineral water baths, thalassotherapy and brine mud baths to a whole range of different massages, beauty treatments, and other programmes. Culinary pleasures include Mediterranean dishes including the delectable truffles, and excellent Primorska wines.

Feel the aroma of good life

A sunny day awakens the senses and promises adventure. Along the picturesque streets of the past drift the scents of evergreen Mediterranean vegetation…

Green Mediterranean . Koper, Izola and Piran – cities on its threshold. Portorož – tourist bustle infused with centuries of tradition. Small villages among olive groves and vineyards.

All this is the Green Mediterranean. Here, on a stretch of less than fifty kilometres, you can breathe in all the diversity of the Mediterranean. Picturesque medieval city cores shake hands with ancient inner harbours with fishing boats, a landscape full of evergreen vegetation invites you to enjoy an active holiday, and comfortable hotels with luxurious swimming pools guarantee all the comfort even in the winter season. Portorož , once the “Port of Roses”, is today an attractive seaside resort, a congress and sports centre, and the host town of a variety of events. It boasts a marina, a tourist and recreation airfield Airport of Portorož , a casino, and thermal spas. Not far from the waves of the Adriatic is Slovenian Istria, a place with a rich ethnographic and culinary tradition. Among the ancient Istrian settlements, Hrastovlje is especially interesting not least for the unique Late Gothic frescoes in its church.

Breathe in every experience

Anchor your yacht in a modern marina or see the Green Mediterranean on an outing in a rented motorboat, sailboat, or on a charter cruise.

Land at the airfield by the sea, or take a panoramic flight over the salt pans and Slovenian Istria. Relax in selected baths, treat yourself to a massage, or invigorate your body and mind with exercise in or on the water, on a playing field, in an entertainment centre or casino, on a dance floor…


YOU CAN BREATHE IN THE ENTIRE GREEN MEDITERRANEAN AT ONCE

The Slovenian coast stretches only 46.6 kilometres, but the influences of the sea reach well into the interior.

ITS NATURAL FEATURES WILL ASTONISH YOU

Along with the highest flysch cliff in the Adriatic (80 metres), Strunjan Landscape Park also protects the characteristic halophyte plants that grow in salty soil. Because of the many bird species found here, the Sečovlje Salt Pans Landscape Park is listed on the UNESCO list of internationally important wetlands. In the park there is also an open-air Salt-making Museum.

IT IS LIVELY

You can swim, dive, fish, sail, windsurf, cycle, fly, play tennis, etc.

IT IS NAUTICALLY FRIENDLY

Drop anchor in the marinas in Koper , Izola , and Portorož .

 

 

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Date: 28.12.2007