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Rogaška Slatina
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Rogaška Slatina is Slovenia's oldest and largest spa town, a veritable 'cure factory' with
almost a dozen hotels and treatments and therapies. It's an attractive place set among
scattered forests in the foothills of the Macelj range. Hiking and cycling in the area are
particularly good.
The hot spring here was known in Roman times but first made it onto the map in 1574,
when the governor of Styria took the waters on the advice of his physician. A century later
visitors started arriving in droves and by the early 19th century Rogaška Slatina was an
established spa town.
The heart of Rogaška Slatina is the spa complex, an architecturally important group of
neoclassical, Secessionist and Plečnik-style buildings surrounding a long landscaped
garden called Zdraviliški trg, or Health Resort Square.
Rogaška Slatina's bus station is south of Zdraviliški trg on Celjska cesta. The train sta-
tion is 300m further south on Kidričeva ulica.
