Portorož
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| Coordinates: 45°30′59.88″N 13°34′47.89″E / 45.5166333°N 13.5799694°E | |
| Country |  Slovenia |
| Region | Slovenian Littoral |
| Municipality | Piran |
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| - Total | 2.97 km2 (1.1 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 31.2 m (102 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| - Total | 2,849 |
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Portorož (Italian: Portorose), literally "Port of Roses", is a coastal town in Slovenia and one of the country's largest tourist areas.[2]
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[edit] Geography
Portorož belongs to the coastal municipality of Piran, located in the southwest of the Gulf of Trieste (at the northern-most point of the Adriatic Sea) between the boundaries of Italy to the North and Croatia to the south.
[edit] Economy
Portorož is home to a marina[3], casino, and numerous sporting facilities. There is also Portorož International Airport in nearby village Sečovlje.
Portorož was host to the International Physics Olympiad in 1985 and to the European Universities Debating Championships in 2001.
It is the host of the new Euro-Mediterranean University[4], that was inaugurated on Monday 9 June 2008, in collaboration with universities of the EU, the Middle-East and North Africa (the EU States and the Euro-Mediterranean Basin, from to Turkey to Morocco and including Israel), by Janez Janša, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League, and Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament. This university will be fully operational for its first academic year in 2009.[5]
[edit] Arts
The city hosts since 1961 a biennial of contemporary art, the International Sculpture Symposium Forma Viva[6], where artists come to create a work before the public. The works were created together in a sculpture park in the hamlet of Seca (free access).
 The sculpture park of Forma Viva overlooking the bay |
.JPG) Forma Viva 1963 : Achiam : Tribute to fallen patriots for freedom |
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Portorož |
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Forma Viva Symposium |
- Portorož on Geopedia
- Official homepage
- Portorož Airport - Official Website
- Euro-Mediaterranean University in Portorož — Official website
- St. Bernardin Hotels
- LifeClass Hotels
- hotel Kempinski Palace Portorož
- Portorož travel guide from Wikitravel
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