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Portorož
Portorož; Portorose
	; Portorož Location in Slovenia
	Coordinates: 45°30′59.88″N 13°34′47.89″E / 45.5166333°N 13.5799694°E
Country	Slovenia
Region	Slovenian Littoral
Municipality	Piran
	Area
- Total	2.97 km2 (1.1 sq mi)
Elevation	31.2 m (102 ft)
	Population (2002)
- Total	2,849

Portorož (Italian: Portorose), literally "Port of Roses", is a coastal town in Slovenia and one of the country's largest tourist areas.^[2]

[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]

Coastal hotels in Portorož town centre

[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

Forma Viva 1963 : Achiam : Tribute to fallen patriots for freedom

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