SEČOVLJE - SALT PANS

This small settlement is widely known for its salt pans, which through centuries contributed to economic development of our parts. The original marsh wetlands, originating from the connection of delta land and the sea, were transformed into salt pans already in the middle ages. The salt works as an economic activity still exists nowadays on approximately 700 hectares of operational salt pans. On the area of the old, abandoned salt pans, there is Salt Pans Museum, in which we can admire the gradual development of the salt pans, as well as the way of life of the salt workers during the centuries up to the present date.

The Sečovlje salt pans are today the largest coastal marsh wetlands (517 hectares), and at the same time the most important Slovenian locality from the ornithological point of view. The variety of the bird species on this area, under the aspect of nesting and wintering, is much larger than on any other comparable locality of the kind. Until present date the 253 species were ascertained, of which in the wider surrounding area 91 are nesting, in the restricted area 68, and 26 directly in the salt pans of Sečovlje. On the basis of these facts, the salt pans of Sečovlje, were at first proclaimed as the nature park (in the year 1989) comprising four nature reserves, and later as the sole Slovenian Ramsar locality (in the year 1993). At same time the salt pans are extremely important as an extraordinary assortment of various ecosystems, combined of transition forms between sea water, brackish, fresh water and land ecosystems.

Information:
Krajinski park Sečoveljske soline (KPSS)
Seča 115
6320 Portorož  - Portorose, SI
telephone: +386 (0)5 672 13 30
e-mail: info@kpss.si

Turistično združenje Portorož g.i.z.
Obala 16
SI - 6320 Portorož
Tel.: +386 5 674 82 60
Fax: +386 5 674 82 61
E-mail: info@portoroz.si