Secovlje Travel Guide

 picek Says:  Maybe your best part of stay at Slovenian coast will include trip to salt fields in Secovlje - what is left amazes the senses. In a way. Salt is produced in the parts of existing fields, while majority of them is abandoned and due natural course of succession turned into... 

 olja1234 Says:  All the villages are usually at the top of the hills. This is the region of the wine trade mark "Refosk", tasty "prsut" olives, fruits and very picturesque villages, with the views far around. 

 olja1234 Says:  This photo was taken in a very border between Slovenia and Croatia. The big white house is already in Croatia. Yuo pass the border crossing (in Slovene site) and there is the way to the beautiful region of Slovene Karst 

 olja1234 Says:  Life in salt pans was heavy. Besides housekeeping, women had to work very hard. They tried several herbs, to found out if they're eatable. In the middle of the photo is the herb, so small and tiny that you can't noticed it. It turns upon the humidity and it originated a sort... 

 olja1234 Says:  Baking BreadAtthat time, at Secovlje pans they had only three baker's ovens for baking bread and pastry. As one oven was used by several families, bread had to be marked by seals, made by village smith. 

 olja1234 Says:  The KitchenIn one of the restored old Museum two equipped rooms and a kitchen. You can see in the photo, how the kichens look like years back. 

 olja1234 Says:  The "sandals" on the photo is named wooden "taperini" . The pools are covered with a layer of "petola" which allows the salters to walk in the pools, wearing their wooden "taperini". 

 olja1234 Says:  Two saltpans houses with their surroundings. appertainin salt fields and reservoir were reconstructed.The photo below, shows the tools , salters used with their work. 

 olja1234 Says:  On the area of the old abandoned salt pans, there is Salt Pans Museum, where we can admire the gradual development of the salt pans, as well as the way of life of the salters. 

 olja1234 Says:  Another view onto the opposed site of the coastline. The hills are settled mostly with bungalows and weekend - cottages. You can rent some of them. I recomand to do this, because its peaceful there , they are comfortable, with shady gardens and never the less a view is... 

 olja1234 Says:  From the Secovlje pans, you can admire Bernardin and Beli Kriz on the top of the hill.. When it's a high visibility you can enjoy the magnificent view, Bernardin is a hotel settlement, with mostly expensive hotels in the left hand side of Portoroz (if you look from Secovlje) 

 olja1234 Says:  There is one more useful thing in the Secovlje salt pans - the mud. A healthy mud named "fango". The whole body has to be spread with fango, till it dry up. You have to revise this process several times for the best results. 

 olja1234 Says:  The Secovlje salt pansare the largest coastal wetlands, and at the same time the most important Slovenian locality from the ornithological point of view. 

 olja1234 Says:  Secovlje lies very close to the river Dragonja and the border beetwen Slovenia and Croatia. Dragonja valley, a wonderful Karst landscape, is known upon the fruit plantations, plantations of olive trees and vineyards. This is the country of "Refosk" wine 

 olja1234 Says:  On the way to Secovlje - if you enlarge the photo, you'll see the salt pans in the background. This is not the only sight in the area. As I've already said, you can visit the town Piran. It's actually "A must" 

 olja1234 Says:  Another salter's house.Downstairs, they kept tools, needed with their work and upstairs, they lived their far from easy life. 

 olja1234 Says:  Many years back, salters lived in these humble houses for six month a year. From April till August when sat is harvested.Women carried fresh water in a wooden pails on the heads. 

 olja1234 Says:  100 years ago, people who worked here, lived in a houses like these ones on the photo. It was a really hard work, as you can see in the Museum, placed in two restored salters' houses.