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Extract from the Portoroz Travel Guides:
Heading west from Koper the road veers right soon after Izola onto a long, tapering peninsula that projects like a lizard's tail north into the Adriatic.
PORTOROZ
("Port of Roses") appears almost without warning, a sprawling resort that by the end of the nineteenth century was already known for its mild climate and the health-inducing properties of its salty mud baths. Maladied middle-aged Austrians flocked here by the thousand to be smothered with murky balm dredged up from the nearby salt pans. Up went the
Palace Hotel
, in came the opportunists - and so began Portoroz, a town entirely devoted to the satis...
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