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 Slovenia - Amusement, sport and health
 

Besides the fun that can be enjoyed in one of the numerous casinos located everywhere, in the territory can be practised to all the levels very pleasant physical activities.

 

In a beautiful area at the foot of the Alps where dominate silence and the nature untouched, there are  lot of possibilities available for sport, health and free time. But also the offer of the coastal zones is rich and important

 

Slovenian people are the oldest skiers in central Europe and this should not surprise, cause the large number of well equipped skiing centres. Do you like snowy slopes but you don't know how to ski? Here ski-runs right to all the family are numerous for fun of adults and children; and, if you need a trainer, valid schools of ski with trained staff are available. The experienced skiers will find in Slovenia centre where take place the competitions for the World Cup, as Kranjska Gora, with over 30 kilometres of slopes for the alpine ski and 40 kilometres of long cross country ski rings. In the near slopes the descents are also organized by sled long one of the most picturesque alpine roads that reach the gap of Vršič.
The winter family holiday will be also unforgettable in Pohorje of Maribor. Here every year take place the competitions to participate to the World Cup of alpine ski. Everybody can enjoy the 60 kilometres of ski runs and 25 kilometres reserved to the long cross country ski. And it is also possible practise night ski.
Well equipped also the ski runs of the Vogel and the Kanin, where it is possible skiing even till May and, according to the climate, also in summer.

 

But the offer for sport lovers is really large and varied: Slovenia is rich of activity for every season.

 

For the air sports lovers, in Slovenia there are 11 centre, such as : clubs of climbing and hang gliding, as well as the association for the hot-air balloon.  

 

The coastal resorts invite the sail lovers, the surfers, the swimmers and all the sea impassioned. With the help of an experienced guide it is possible to practise suggestive immersions in the traditional places but also inside spectacular submarine caves.

 

 For the one who practises kayak, canoe or rafting there is the Isonzo (Soča) river, for some the most beautiful in Europe. But if you prefer more quiet situations, the rivers Krka and Kolpa are easily practicable. Descents and courses of various type can be organized everywhere.

Finally, everywhere in Slovenia there are horse centres, alpine paths for touring, and almost everywhere for bicycling. There are also well equipped sweater fields: the more ancient, by 9 and 18 holes, is in Bled, in a spectacular mountain landscape. After all these activities, it is pleasant to relax in one of the 15 thermal centres of Slovenia. The swimming pools have a temperature from 27° to 38° degrees, to make the permanence the more possible relaxant; besides the benefits of mineral waters there are healthy mud and various centres of thalassotherapy.

Modern and pleasant centres, experienced and trained staff, medical cares and the possibility to enjoy of comfort and health personalized programs set the thermal baths of Slovenia in the context of the most interesting offers in Europe. The thermal baths of Rogaška Slatina
boast a fifteenth-century tradition; the mineral water Donat is unique in Europe for its content of magnesium and for the bacteriological purity; the thermal baths of Radenci have a water known all over the world, the Radenska, that already in the first years of last century was drunk in the imperial court in Vienna and in the papal court in the Vatican. The thermal baths Dolenjske Toplice, next to Novo Mesto, are an ideal destination for all those people who desire to relax in a natural but equipped area, away from the frantic daily life but also next to the more beautiful tourist destinations where naturalistic or cultural excursions are available.

Few kilometres from the Dolenjske, close to the splendid castles of Brezice, Podsreda and Otocec, the thermal baths of Šmarješka offer the possibility of thermal holiday enriched with excursions and visits. A particular proposal is offered by the centre of thalassotherapy of Strugnano (Strunjan), only two kilometres from Portorose; the particular position on the sea and the climate, mild and Mediterranean, gives to its inhabitants and visitors 2300 hours of sun a year. The structure is composed by a good hotel, next to there are dependences, villas and another buildings with rooms and apartments, with all the comforts. Besides the traditional thalassotherapy the centre offers treatments of pinprick, reducing and against cellulite programs using the mud sea and many other beauty programs.