Secovlje is a small village at the Adtriatic coast which got known for its salt works, which influenced the economical development of the region and Piran. The natural swampland at the banks of the sea, were arranged as saline fields by the inhabitants already in medieval times. Although less important today, salt winning on 700 hectares is still a vivid branch of economic activitiy. In some parts of the salines, that are out of use, there is a saline museum, showing the development of the saline and the way of live of the salt farmers during the past centuries.

Nowadays, the salines of Secovlje are the largest coastal wetland and therefore of great importance for nesting and migratory birds. There’s a much wider variety of bird species than at comparable spots; 253 kinds of birds have actually been counted. That is why the salines have firstly became a natural park (in 1989) with four protected areas, later on it became the one and only Ramsar Wetland of Slovenia. At the same time the salines are of great importance linking and unifying all transitions of the ecosystems of the sea, of mixed water, of sweet water and of the continental ecosystem.


Turisticno združenje Portoro. g.i.z.,
Obala 16, 6320 Portorož
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e-Mail: info(at)portoroz.si

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