Sečovlje Salina Nature Park

Description:

At Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, the past and present still walk hand in hand.

The ancient method of salt-making, learnt ages ago by the Piran salt-workers from their teachers, the salters from Pag Island, is still something special, even in the entire Mediterranean. Not only that the traditional manual gathering of salt in salt fields is a special feature of the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean Slovenia, but it also provides for conditions that enable conservation of the most significant natural heritage of the Sečovlje Salina. According to the available written records, the Sečovlje salt-pans are more than 700 years old, and even much older according to some other sources. Once upon a time, salt-pans were quite common along the mouths of the rivers in the Gulf of Trieste and Istria.


Acces to the Park

Sečovlje Salina Nature Park has two entrances reachable by land. Lera can be reached by the steep paved road branching off to the right at Seča from the main Lucija - Sečovlje border crossing road.

At the end of the paved part of the road there is a crossing (with Pick & Place building on the right); straight from here, the main entrance to the Park can already be seen on the bridge over the St. Jernej Channel. There is a gate at the entrance, and a parking place. The visitors are kindly requested to cover the distance to the Park's administration office by foot or bike, although access is possible by motor vehicles as well. Access to the Museum of Salt-making, managed by the Maritime Museum Sergej Mašera Piran in the Fontanigge area, is possible via tarmac road leading along the Dragonja river (after you cross the Sečovlje checkpoint and turn right just before the bridge over the Dragonja). Again, you are kindly requested to leave your vehicle in front of the gate at the pipeline leading across the Dragonja, although considerate rides with motor vehicles are actually allowed as well.

For the time being, there are no regular public transport lines from coastal towns to the Sečovlje Park. From Lucija you can reach the Park through the Marina, past the Camp and on the road along the St. Jernej Channel.